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23andMe meets FDA standards, adds back wellness reports

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Re: 23andMe meets FDA standards, adds back wellness reports

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Post by SilasX »

refurb wrote: post #28

Anyone else see this Forbes article?[1] It seems to indicate a high level of naivety on the part of 23&Me in terms of the regulatory requirements around genetic testing. What Hibbs found was that 23andMe and the FDA were not even speaking the same language. The FDA is guided by laws and regulations that limit what it can say, and 23andMe wasn’t picking up on the agency’s cues. FDA officials would leave 23andMe an ope…

>A part of me thinks it wasn't naivety and it was more "move fast and break things".

Or "I did a jerkish move (like playing dumb), and they didn't call me out on it. I've discovered a mind hack!"

Re: 23andMe meets FDA standards, adds back wellness reports

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Post by MadManE »

starshadowx2 wrote: post #26
chaud wrote: post #2

I would like to know how the new report compares to the old one. Also of note, the price has gone up from $99 (as of earlier this week) to $199. edit: This NYTimes article has more details: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/business/23andme-will-resu... Now, after nearly two years, 23andMe is announcing on Wednesday that it will begin providing customers with health information again, though much less than before and…

It's been $199 CAD for at least a year or more now. I got mine when it was on a sale for $99. I guess the US version has been priced differently?

When you use real money, things are cheaper.

Re: 23andMe meets FDA standards, adds back wellness reports

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Post by chanux »

rcthompson wrote: post #30
esaym wrote: post #25

Man, why is it so expensive? To test my wife and I would be nearly $400. I mean sure, it might help me be able to pre-treat any known trait based disease but still.. If all they are doing is running some DNA through a database, seems like the cost should getting lower, not higher.

They're also maintaining that database and adding to it over time as our understanding of genetically-linked diseases evolves.

And making money off the (anonymized) data as well?

Re: 23andMe meets FDA standards, adds back wellness reports

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Post by op00to »

23andMe can do whatever they want with your data. It totally boggles my mind that someone would give a private company legal, full, and complete access to what makes you, you. We're still in the infancy of understanding what we can do with our genomes. Giving all our information over to an entity without a fiduciary responsibility to protecting your personal data is just idiotic.

Re: 23andMe meets FDA standards, adds back wellness reports

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Post by benchtobedside »

chanux wrote: post #35
rcthompson wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're also maintaining that database and adding to it over time as our understanding of genetically-linked diseases evolves.

And making money off the (anonymized) data as well?

That is correct - using it to develop their own therapeutic candidates in fact [1]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/03/12/23andme...

Re: 23andMe meets FDA standards, adds back wellness reports

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Post by legulere »

chaud wrote: post #2

I would like to know how the new report compares to the old one. Also of note, the price has gone up from $99 (as of earlier this week) to $199. edit: This NYTimes article has more details: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/business/23andme-will-resu... Now, after nearly two years, 23andMe is announcing on Wednesday that it will begin providing customers with health information again, though much less than before and…

The international version that only covers heritage still is priced 99$. The local versions outside of the US that provided health coverage already were priced higher before.

Re: 23andMe meets FDA standards, adds back wellness reports

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Post by csl »

mmastrac wrote: post #5

I hope this means we can finally upgrade our results to the latest chip, or that they restore some of the SNPs they dropped in the later chips that make these reports impossible to compute. I've been waiting to unlock the Alzheimer's results for ages, but it always tells me that "upgrading to the latest platform is unavailable".

I've made a 23andMe parser that can report on this. Actually, it covers quite a lot of their health results:

https://github.com/cslarsen/dna-traits

The test for Alzheimers is here: https://github.com/cslarsen/dna-traits/blob/master/py-dnatra... (the algorithm used to be patented, by the way). By closely reading the algorithm, you can probably find out yourself, given that 23andMe still lets you browse your genome.

To see all health reports, run this file on the downloaded genome: https://github.com/cslarsen/dna-traits/blob/master/py-dnatra... (you have to compile the C++ code first)

Actually was playing with the idea of monetizing off this project, but the laws in my country prohibit me from doing so. In fact, just using the program I made is illegal unless its my own genome.

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