[ExI] FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe to Halt DNA Test Service

[Brian Manning Delaney]

El 2013-11-27 03:51, spike escribió:

> Regarding the medical stuff, a couple months ago I went for my regular
> annual checkup (my last one for the foreseeable, thankyouverymuch
> ObamaCare.)  My doctor and I went over the results from 23andMe.  She
> hadn’t actually seen one of them before, but it indicated a risk for a
> condition, so she ordered a test, and sure enough, I came back a 1.7
> sigma case on that.  Fortunately it was nothing life-threatening.  But I
> am taking steps to compensate.  Now isn’t that a perfectly legitimate
> argument for taking the test?  Just use the DNA tests to see if there is
> some more-rigorous medical tests that might be done.  It isn’t a
> conclusive diagnostic test in itself.

My perspective as well. This idea -- frequently brought up by the 
mainstream press -- that someone will get an email from 23andMe 
announcing their results are ready, click on a link, then read something 
that with no intervening steps (talking with a GP, or a genetic 
counselor, friends, then a surgeon...) causes them mistakenly to have 
some important body parts removed is, to put it mildly, far-fetched.

I can report that getting the health results changed my life. (Still 
haven't had time to explore the 900+ kin that show up.) I have made 
critical readjustments to my life-extension regimen that may save my 
life, or at least save many years of healthy life. I wish I had known 
about 23andMe when they first opened their doors. It cost much more 
then, but my current self would tell my past self to pay however many 
thousands it cost.

Brian