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Re: genealogy question - PeterB - 01-13-2014
sekker wrote:
As a geneticist, I'm ok with the genealogy definition they use. It's just an average estimate, not an absolute path in terms of origin that they are describing. This is for entertainment use.
What I object to are the health predictions - there, the company's approach is not nearly sufficiently precise. I fear that there are people who take their comments far too literally.
THERE'S the big problem. They are NOT advertising this as being for "entertainment use". Quite the opposite... they're claiming a level of accuracy which is obviously nowhere near. I would have no problem with their using these percentages so long as they warn the user that it's not likely to be that accurate, as you say, an average estimate.
And as for the health predictions... well, that's why their kit got pulled.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/25/5143464/fda-orders-23andme-to-stop-selling-dna-test-kit
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=after-23andme-another