Any ODT Members Using 23andMe?

[TresMonos]

Your data is probably going to eventually be made public

Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data

The consumer-genomics company 23andMe just sold its biobank of customer genetic data to drugmaker Regeneron for $256 million.

futurism.com

American biotech company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals announced today that it's buying 23andMe, the bankrupt consumer-genomics company that sold take-home DNA kits. Regeneron is to pay $256 million in cash to acquire "substantially all" of 23andMe's assets, including its massive biobank of around 15 million customer genetic samples and data.

https://newsroom.regeneron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/regeneron-enters-asset-purchase-agreement-acquire-23andmer-256

 

[BIKER13]

Your data is now public

Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data

The consumer-genomics company 23andMe just sold its biobank of customer genetic data to drugmaker Regeneron for $256 million.

futurism.com

https://newsroom.regeneron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/regeneron-enters-asset-purchase-agreement-acquire-23andmer-256

what aint public? Try as you may you on a list

 

[TresMonos]

what aint public? Try as you may you on a list

Be careful dude.....1st gen Viking DNA is valuable.

 

[palmettomoon]

Health insurers will (or should) pay handsomely for this information.

 

[Omega]

Ding ding ding ^^^^

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

Your data is probably going to eventually be made public

Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data

The consumer-genomics company 23andMe just sold its biobank of customer genetic data to drugmaker Regeneron for $256 million.

futurism.com

https://newsroom.regeneron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/regeneron-enters-asset-purchase-agreement-acquire-23andmer-256

As a friend from up yonder way (Rome, Dalton) used to say "I never was to do no dumbass **** like that."
Sending your DNA to any of them companies MIGHT be even worse than handing it over to the gubment.

 

[palmettomoon]

As a friend from up yonder way (Rome, Dalton) used to say "I never was to do no dumbass **** like that."
Sending your DNA to any of them companies MIGHT be even worse than handing it over to the gubment.

Unfortunately the goobermint already has mine. I think they collected blood and hair samples in 1985 for ID purposes (we were told). I don't think anyone saw DNA testing coming back then if you weren't a researcher.

 

[BHPSteel]

I didn't and wouldn't use a service like that, but unfortunately, my wife and the two kids decided it would be fun to do - so assuming the kids are mine - it'll be pretty easy to figure out significant chunks of my gene sequence by inference from their records.

 

[palmettomoon]

I can understand the allure of these "services" for a lot of folks that do not know their lineage or family history.

I consider myself somewhat fortunate in knowing a great deal about mine for several hundred years.

Other than my ancestors escaping a debtor's prison barge off the coast of the colony of Georgia I'm pretty happy knowing all about mine.

 

[lostchild]

My wife started down that rabbit hole, I laughed.
Turns out she can trace her father's line all the way back to before coming from Ireland and landing in America in the early 1600's. Males in the family fought as officers in the Revolutionary war and the Civil War.
She's actually eligible for membership in both the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Me? I'm just a mutt.