FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports
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FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports
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Re: FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports
#2I wonder, does that mean anyone who's already submitted a sample to 23andme will get these reports, or is a new sample required?
Re: FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports
#3FDA press release:
https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/u...
Re: FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports
#4> For several years, 23andMe has worked on demonstrating that its reports are easy to understand and analytically valid...
I guess these are different reports, but I know a genetic counsellor who describes 23andMe's carrier screening tests as "the bane of their existence". Those reports seem not-so-easy to understand based on the patients she sees.
One problem is that they warn that your offspring are at high risk for some condition, when really "high risk" means 0.5% higher risk than the general population. The other is that they may say you are not a carrier for a certain condition, when they only test for one variant of it, where proper tests will test for multiple variants. They can both scare and soothe irresponsibly.
Re: FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports
#5I wonder, does that mean anyone who's already submitted a sample to 23andme will get these reports, or is a new sample required?
If you have already submitted a sample, you will get a report. Since 23andme maps your whole genome, they simply compare the existing data as new finding are approved. OR if you are like some and signed up early before the FDA crackdown, you already got all this information and now they are just reappearing little by little.
Re: FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports
#6Is there any way to just have your entire genome sequenced and get all the data in a software-friendly format? At that point there could/should be some open source software for analyzing it and finding common or well understood things like this. That way the software could be updated and people could re-run their analysis to look for newly discovered stuff.
I think this would be an awesome amount of fun. I for one would be interested in looking for certain gene variants that are not mentioned at all over at 23andMe.
Re: FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports
#7I wonder, does that mean anyone who's already submitted a sample to 23andme will get these reports, or is a new sample required?
From https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202907980...: "Current 23andMe customers will be notified directly on their eligibility for receiving new genetic health risk reports." Sounds like it depends on which package you bought.
Re: FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports
#8Is there any way to just have your entire genome sequenced and get all the data in a software-friendly format? At that point there could/should be some open source software for analyzing it and finding common or well understood things like this. That way the software could be updated and people could re-run their analysis to look for newly discovered stuff. I think this would be an awesome amount of fun. I for one wo…
I did Illumina UYG. As part of that I got a 1TB hard drive with the nearly-raw files (BAM format with raw reads, VCF with variants).
Lots of people say " I for one would be interested in looking for certain gene variants that are not mentioned at all over at 23andMe." but they either never do anything with the data, or they look into it and realize that SNP analysis of gene variants is still a charltan's game.
Re: FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports
#9I wonder, does that mean anyone who's already submitted a sample to 23andme will get these reports, or is a new sample required?
I'm 99.9% sure that a new sample is not required. All of those risk factors can already be looked at with other tools which import raw data from your 23andme account.
Eg Promethease evaluates hundreds of genes (both the risks and positive traits) for a couple dollars: http://snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease
Re: FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports
#10Is there any way to just have your entire genome sequenced and get all the data in a software-friendly format? At that point there could/should be some open source software for analyzing it and finding common or well understood things like this. That way the software could be updated and people could re-run their analysis to look for newly discovered stuff. I think this would be an awesome amount of fun. I for one wo…
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