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$49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)
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Re: $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)
#62Doesn't seem to work anymore. The price I get is $299.
Keep deleting your cookies OR restart your Firefox in private mode, I had to restart about 7 times until I got the $49 offer.
Re: $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)
#63Maybe I've been watching too much Dexter, but isn't this a law enforcement agency's dream? Never again will they fail to get a match on DNA, just subpoena 23andme and competitors. Right?
Nope. Someone posted a link above[1] to what I assume is a 23andme FAQ response, stating that they have a Certificate of Confidentiality from the (US) government.
According to this NIH page on said certificates[2], it sounds like even if they were served a subpoena for the information, 23andme could still tell them to fuck off.
[1] https://customercare.23andme.com/entries/21262376-how-is-the...
Re: $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)
#64Doesn't seem to work anymore. The price I get is $299.
Try again.
Re: $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)
#65Everyone is so fixated on the price. What I want to know is, who they share the data with? Do the insurance companies get our genome? Come on people, there should be no more precious data to you, than the genome of you and your family. Yet facebook users seem more concerned about their social network privacy than HN members are about their genome privacy. For insurance companies, this could be a total actuarial GOLDM…
>What I want to know is, who they share the data with? Did you read the privacy policy? Specifically: https://customercare.23andme.com/entries/21262376-how-is-the... 23andMe research may involve collaboration with external parties; however, these external parties will only have access to pooled data stripped of identifying information. 23andMe will never release your individual-level data to any third party without a…
Thank you for finding that, Karunamon.
It is nice that their website includes reassuring language. But really, how stable is that policy in the face of changing corporate owners, changing political administration (romney?), changing supreme court justices, changing geopolitics?
Genome data is of permanent importance. To be able to, even in 50 years, look back at genome records of today, will still be very valuable (especially when combined with genealogy records...).
Look at privacy trends, storage trends, and trends in govt accountability and transparency. Make no mistake, once our sequences are in corporate databases, there is no going back.
I look forward to user-driven cryptographic genome tools, which will allow us to inspect our own genomes, while maintaining personal control over our entire genome (ie., never having to hand the whole sequence over to a commercial or govt entity).
Re: $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)
#66As far as I can tell, this is just their usual SNP array product. Wake me up when they offer $49 for 30x coverage.
They offer a full exome sequencing for $999 in a pilot right now, so for a full genome 30x sequencing for 50 bucks you might have to sleep a decade or so
Re: $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)
#67Verified to work. http://i.imgur.com/6JqbL.png?1 I had to keep closing and creating a new incognito window, not just new tabs. It's cheaper to create a new account then to upgrade my old account for $249.
Indeed it is cheaper to just get this at $49 than upgrade for $249. This is a great way to upgrade to the V3 chip.
You get more SNPs if you have V2 and they add in V3, so I'll call them and see if I can link it to my account.
Here are the SNP counts per chip version combo:
V2 only: 576,000 SNPs V3 only: 967,000 SNPs V2 + V3 (upgraded): 996,000 SNPs
Re: $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
>What I want to know is, who they share the data with? Did you read the privacy policy? Specifically: https://customercare.23andme.com/entries/21262376-how-is-the... 23andMe research may involve collaboration with external parties; however, these external parties will only have access to pooled data stripped of identifying information. 23andMe will never release your individual-level data to any third party without a…
Thank you for finding that, Karunamon. It is nice that their website includes reassuring language. But really, how stable is that policy in the face of changing corporate owners, changing political administration (romney?), changing supreme court justices, changing geopolitics? Genome data is of permanent importance. To be able to, even in 50 years, look back at genome records of today, will still be very valuable (e…
>But really, how stable is that policy in the face of changing corporate owners, changing political administration (romney?), changing supreme court justices, changing geopolitics?
That's a valid point, but a few things reassure me. Firstly that confidentiality cert from DHHS probably isn't going to be made useless by a political entity any time soon (and I'd assume, though would need to research, that such a cert would also apply to any buyers should 23AM get picked up by someone else, and probably carries some requirements for them as well)
Even then, I doubt within the next 60 or so years left on my lifespan that there will be any shenanigans in that area... and after I'm gone, they can do whatever the hell they want with my sequence :)
I'd imagine that, given enough time and cost reduction, services like this will become nationalized, where your genome is sequenced at birth for identity and health purposes.
Re: $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)
#69Run in your JavaScript console: document.cookie = 'optimizelyBuckets=' + escape('{"145285685":"145865258"}') + '; domain=.23andme.com'; document.location.reload(true); The other values I found: 69 -> escape('{"145285685":"145818631"}') 99 -> escape('{"145285685":"145866265"}') 149 -> escape('{"145285685":"145285686"}') 299 -> escape('{"145285685":"145891045"}') Edit: Actually, it looks like this no longer works. They…
Re: $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)
#70Run in your JavaScript console: document.cookie = 'optimizelyBuckets=' + escape('{"145285685":"145865258"}') + '; domain=.23andme.com'; document.location.reload(true); The other values I found: 69 -> escape('{"145285685":"145818631"}') 99 -> escape('{"145285685":"145866265"}') 149 -> escape('{"145285685":"145285686"}') 299 -> escape('{"145285685":"145891045"}') Edit: Actually, it looks like this no longer works. They…
This works: https://www.23andme.com/special_offer/49NOV2012/
Doesn't seem to work anymore. Had to break eventually I guess!