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Alright, back on topic then. My brother's health results just came in today. Here's what the disclaimer preceding his Parkinson's risk report results looks like.
 

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Apparently you can only use the service now for ancestry reasons, due to the FDA meddling.
 
sparklemilhouse said:
Apparently you can only use the service now for ancestry reasons, due to the FDA meddling.
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FDA "meddling"...

On November 22, 2013, after not hearing from 23andMe for six months, the FDA ordered 23andMe to stop marketing its Saliva Collection Kit and Personal Genome Service (PGS) as 23andMe had not demonstrated that they have "analytically or clinically validated the PGS for its intended uses" and the "FDA is concerned about the public health consequences of inaccurate results from the PGS device".
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Or from Forbes, the sniveling fans of big government socialism we all know them to be...

The FDA’s account seems to show the agency giving 23andMe a lot of chances, and to show a willingness to find a way to work with the startup. The FDA references 14 face-to-face meetings and telephone calls, hundreds of emails and dozens of written communications during which the agency said it provided specific feedback on study protocols that would prove 23andMe’s tests were useful as diagnostics and other tests to prove the 23andMe kits gave consistent results. Instead, 23andMe expanded how its test was used. In January, the FDA says the company promised that it was doing extensive studies that would take months to complete – and then that promised data never materialized. This is not the way to deal with a powerful government regulator.

23andMe’s statement on the news? “We have received the warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration. We recognize that we have not met the FDA’s expectations regarding timeline and communication regarding our submission. Our relationship with the FDA is extremely important to us and we are committed to fully engaging with them to address their concerns.”
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Then there's also the lawsuit, covered once more by those damned Forbes Obamaites...

1. This proposed class action alleges that 23andMe, Inc. (“Defendant”) falsely and misleadingly advertises their Saliva Collection Kit/Personal Genome Service (“PGS”) as providing “health reports on 240+ conditions and traits”, “drug response”, “carrier status”, among other things, when there is no analytical or clinical validation for the PGS for its advertised uses.

2. In addition, Defendant uses the information it collects from the DNA tests consumers pay to take to generate databases and statistical information that it then markets to other sources and the scientific community in general, even though the test results are meaningless.
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To be sure, there's no doubt the FDA colludes with bigger corporations to wreck smaller ones, and a lot of the time, the FDA are a bunch of bastards. In this case, though, we have a pretty clear evidence set suggesting 23andMe basically ignored, if not taunted, the FDA into making a move by advertising a medical product that hadn't (and still hasn't) been shown to work.

If you're going to criticise the FDA, at least use something worthwhile, like their continuing support of Monsanto.
 
I actually recently submitted my kit. My mother is really big into genealogy, and though I'm obviously a mix of her and my father, she also decided to get everybody in the family a kit for christmas.

So, I should have some results within a couple months.

Also, even though the FDA shut down their genetic health information for the time being, you can still access your genome and, say, load it into SNPTips or the like and get much of the same information. For now.
 
hellbound said:
Also, even though the FDA shut down their genetic health information for the time being, you can still access your genome and, say, load it into SNPTips or the like and get much of the same information. For now.
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So do you think this will work for a genome that doesn't have access to the Health analysis on 23andMe? Recently I got my sister and father's saliva samples analyzed and I'm bummed that they don't have the health results like me, my mother, and my brother do. :(
 
I'm told you should have access to the raw data no matter what, and you should be able to find a service that will show you. I can ask my mother for how to do it because she did load hers into SNPtips, but it's not easy to use.
 
hellbound said:
I'm told you should have access to the raw data no matter what, and you should be able to find a service that will show you. I can ask my mother for how to do it because she did load hers into SNPtips, but it's not easy to use.
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I've downloaded SNPtips, but whenever I run it while browsing 23andMe the website runs veeeery slowly. Also even though they claim they make it "easy" to research particular SNPs it still requires a lot of extrapolation on my part.
 
I got my kit today, will drop it off at the post office on the way to work.
 
Ya know somethin', brother? I had my DNA tested. The testing came back as 100% Real American and full of Hulkamania. Yours can, too, brother if you follow the demandments of Hulkamania; train, say your prayers, eat your vitamins.
 
If I had my DNA tested and found out that I have even the smallest trace of Hulkamania I would probably jump off a building knowing that I carry loser DNA. But no worries, the Hulkamanian gene will be erased from the human genome by the Outsiders at Bash at the Fanfic. 8-)
 
Mine is on its way back, does anyone know how long it takes before you see results?
 
Surtur said:
Mine is on its way back, does anyone know how long it takes before you see results?
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Before the FDA's meddling, it took around two weeks for both the health and ancestry results. But for some reason nowadays it seems to take longer for 23andMe to analyze just the ancestry results: 4 weeks. :x Though to be fair half of that time is for the saliva sample to reach the labs.
 
Apparently I'm dabes at being a neanderthal among my family and other people I've shared my DNA results with.

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If I had my DNA tested and found out that I have even the smallest trace of Hulkamania I would probably jump off a building knowing that I carry loser DNA. But no worries, the Hulkamanian gene will be erased from the human genome by the Outsiders at Bash at the Fanfic. 8-)
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Brother, if you had even the smallest trace of Hulkamania, you would realize the bad path you are embarking on. You would realize that the power of Hulkamania is too much to contain for just one man. When Bash at the Fanfic comes, when our battle is complete, I will be standing victorious with all the little Hulksters celebrating with me. AND WHATCHA GONNA DO, BROTHER, WHEN HULKAMANIA RUNS WILD ON YOU?!
 
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Only 3.0%, Trolled by that danf MourningDove.
 
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