Not to mention questionable accuracy
Now that its just an extension of big brother dna database, why would anyone voluntarily do it? Who’s to say your sample is secure from being planted somewhere? Where’s the security guarantees?
I know my heritage is from the best seven dogs in town.
New DNA matches pop up on my Ancestry as fast as I can process them into my tree. I guess their sales are doing fine.
Most peeps DNA does not change.
I know my heritage back three generations. Before that I really don’t want to know. I know that some of them came to Massachusetts in 1642 but there could be some shady characters along the way. I’m more concerned about the future of my kids and grandkids in this country of mine that is in constant jeopardy from the communists.
It’s going to the Government by way of Silicon Valley. Runs the risk/likelihood of insurance companies getting their mitts on it and jacking up your rates. And for males, you might wind up with a surprise from that wild summer in the 80s on your doorstep.
That’s a real mystery why sales are falling off a cliff.
The very worst idea in health care is to use a DNA test to decide how "prone" someone is to some disease.
Good opportunity for Google to just buy them up and add all that DNA information into the Big Database.
23 and Me = Monthly subscription.
Ancestry.com = 1 time fee.
No brainer.
The subscription model looks a like a great revenue stream to investors....until the subscribers figure out that they are paying and getting little.
Ask any newspaper.
I like Ancestry and didn’t get the medical side, nor the “cousins”. Just the locations of ancestors, which you can check via genealogy.
f them up by sending someone else’s dna as your own.
Show me your DNA and I will show you who you truly are. Genes and heredity are more determinative than upbringing. I am of course, speaking from the authority of my arse.
I never believed most of that stuff was legit. How many of the reports that were sent out to gullible customers were pranks? What clinched it for me was the commercial where the customer always “knew” from family oral history that his roots were German, including leiderhosen and other stuff. This outfit told him he was Scottish, so he bagged his German stuff and sprung for kilts, etc. Whatta buncha crap! They deserve to go belly up.
It’s good to see Google fail at something. They’re kinda scary.
one half the price to do the test through ancestery.com and then feed the resulting data into promethease.com for analysis ...
They ‘peaked’, and I would have predicted that three years ago. Their big hope is that the database will be pursued by outside interest, and that has yet to happen.
Lady you hand over your data to the fedgov!
What the heck do you expect?
Not to mention that your results are a bit on the iffy side.
Wojcicki, who told CNBC: “This has been slow and painful for us.”
I am surprised, too. I paid for 23andMe when it was new in 2008, because it was designed by the leader of the human genome project.
I quit in 2017 when it was stagnant.
I learned a lot and downloaded very helpful information to keep me alive to 100.
The problem is that the information got less helpful. Nice ten year fad.