Apparently this is true. There's so many possible implication to this. You're literally paying them for the pleasure of giving them your genetic information, which they are saving.
Meanwhile, a hospital ward full of war-wounded Serbian children who desperately need blood transfusions tearfully clutch their teddy bears and say that they forgive @pripyatplatypus because they’re too innocent think anything different...
Gah! That's not what I meant. Giving blood and providing your spit to a private organization is totally different. I most definitely could have worded that better.
They might in the future, if you are e.g. genetically predisposed to heart problems, they may rise your health insurance or life insurance policy. There are still huge debates on whether this should be allowed, and how legislation will protect this from happening.
This is exactly what my father said. We spent over a thousand dollars on those kits for Christmas and now they're gathering dust in the cabinet. I was so excited, too.
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I mean the government might not be behind it but those private 23 and Me companies certainly are.
I really wanna do it though. I do think the government knows everything about us but, why would they want our DNA info??? I am seriously asking to the pwoplw that agree with this theory?
From what I've read the concern is that no one knows what this information could possibly be used for in the future. One example is health insurance companies charging you based on your genetic predispositions to certain diseases. You're also quite right, the government does have a lot of info on everyone, so why give them your dna to add to the list too? From a completely different angle though, the reason I decided not to do it (even though initially I really wanted to) is that it's not anywhere near as accurate at telling you "where you come from" as they make out. Not only have identical twins sent their samples to the same company and got ...
...differing results, but people have sent their dna to more than one company and got different results from each one. I saw one particular video that explained it really well, I'll link it if i can find it. Apparently on top of not being as accurate as they portray, it also all comes down to how each company "interprets" your results. That's why people get different results from each company. So if it's not accurate and you don't get to control who does what with your dna after, or how it could be used to affect you in the future, is it worth spending your money on?
Ancestry and 23 and Me have different emphasis on different countries. I forgot which one is which but one will tell you your DNA is from Asian and one will say it's from Africa. No matter how little of a percent, they pull their data bases from those countries and therefore it isn't an accurate reading, just a very good guess
They’ve already done this, to an extent. They used DNA samples from from one of these sites to catch the Golden State Killer like 30/40 years after he killed 10 people.
It's true. In my country, there is no law preventing insurance companies from acessing your DNA results. They can refuse to cover you if your DNA reveals that you are predisposed to things like cancer etc
https://youtu.be/u8lMfGqSrwg
These two videos are what really made my mind up for me, but if you search youtube there are many more plus people's personal experiences with these companies.