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posted by martyb on Sunday April 09 2017, @12:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the to-look-or-not-to-look dept.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/health/fda-genetic-tests-23andme.html

For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration said it would allow a company to sell genetic tests for disease risk directly to consumers, providing people with information about the likelihood that they could develop various conditions, including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

The move on Thursday is a turnaround for the agency, which had imposed a moratorium in 2013 on disease tests sold by the company, 23andMe, which is based in Mountain View, Calif. The decision is expected to open the floodgates for more direct-to-consumer tests for disease risks, drawing a road map for other companies to do the same thing.

If you could take such a test, would you? Or would you rather just take things as they come?


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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday April 09 2017, @04:26AM

    by frojack (1554) on Sunday April 09 2017, @04:26AM (#491068) Journal

    It also why you need to stay away from ancestry com too

    Problem with that is all it takes is one curious relative to submit to the Ancestry dot com for everybody of even the remotest kinship to be doxed.

    For the most part Ancestry.com started out as a Mormon thing. [wikipedia.org] They have always been creepily interested in mapping lineage. So much so that in the 80s they were making proposals to state governments to take over all Birth and Death registrations state wide for free if they could retain a copy of the data. I don't know if any states besides Utah went for that.

    Now days Premera (health care) owns a 30% share.

    So yeah, the less they know the better.

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