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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)

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Post by ccarter84 »

rdl wrote: post #43
rodneyfool wrote: post #20

Has anyone done this? If so, was it worth it?

I did 23andme a year or two ago. I found out I have a really boring genome. No real diseases or unexpected ancestry (I guess I was secretly hoping I was adopted from Russian/Jewish royalty or martians or something?). It's certainly worth $49 to me to know this (I think I paid $99 under a FNF deal a while ago; I know one of the founders, who is awesome and a great entrepreneur).

So you're saying they won't sell us down the river? I'm sold

Re: $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)

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Post by mumboJumbo »

_prototype_ wrote: post #56

This is ridiculous. While signing up, I got this message (I hate my state sometimes...): """ 23andMe is currently unable to process saliva samples collected in or mailed from the state of New York. The New York Department of Health considers our Personal Genome Service a test requiring a lab license and direct physician involvement. If you or the recipient of the Spit Kit intend to collect your sample and mail it fro…

If you want to skip this step you can enter a different state and it should still get to you. (zip code > state code) It's worked for me at least.

Re: $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)

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Post by rdl »

ccarter84 wrote: post #71
rdl wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did 23andme a year or two ago. I found out I have a really boring genome. No real diseases or unexpected ancestry (I guess I was secretly hoping I was adopted from Russian/Jewish royalty or martians or something?). It's certainly worth $49 to me to know this (I think I paid $99 under a FNF deal a while ago; I know one of the founders, who is awesome and a great entrepreneur).

So you're saying they won't sell us down the river? I'm sold

Yeah, they're pretty decent people. I'm sure if the government went to them with a warrant or something, they'd fully comply, but they genuinely care about privacy and customers, and would be unlikely to do anything evil. They're also rich enough that I doubt they'd be forced into a sale to some crappy entity who would then abuse things, and their privacy policy is decent enough.

The only real risk I see is if your account is compromised somehow, but at least for me, there's nothing so sensitive in my account that I'd care.

Re: $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)

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Post by kanzure »

a_bonobo wrote: post #66
kanzure wrote: post #45

As 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

Nah, I think it will be less than 10 years. But it is very weird to call their SNP product a "personal genome". This whole thread is full of crazy. :/

Edit: ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/ <-- gimme this for $49

Re: $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)

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Post by GrowthAngels »

benmanns wrote: post #54

Run 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…

Damn, none of these methods are working for me anymore...

Anyone else having any luck?

Re: $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)

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Post by a_bonobo »

kanzure wrote: post #75
a_bonobo wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Nah, I think it will be less than 10 years. But it is very weird to call their SNP product a "personal genome". This whole thread is full of crazy. :/ Edit: ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/ <-- gimme this for $49

Don't know if you're going to see this, but you might be interested:

http://www.genomicslawreport.com/index.php/2012/11/29/dna-dt...

>Whole exomes ($695 at 80x coverage) and genomes ($5,495 at 30x coverage) are both listed as available products.

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