What happened to this company? I cant even remember their name, but they had tv commercials where you would send them a swab, blood sample, etc in a kit they provide, you mail it back, and they analyze your DNA? I think it was about $99? Last I heard the fed had shut them down about a year ago. Why the hell would they prevent people from learning about themselves? I feel this is gov't overreach at its finest.
Dude, they got shut down b/c it was total BS.
We all know that DNA is a made-up joke. Why believes that crap?
There were several companies, but the biggest is called 23andme. They were ordered to cease and desist by the FDA.
There was some question about their laboratory procedures, as their lab was (is?) not CLIA certified. The FDA requires all labs performing diagnostic tests to meet certain standards (all wrapped up in the CLIA certification). From what my colleagues have seen, their output looked to be ok.
More at play here, though, was their suspect interpretation of genetic material. Most notably, the fact they were essentially making diagnoses on complex genetic issues with a complete lack of any patient information (personal history, family history, presence or absence of symptoms, etc, etc) was very troubling.
the results were essentially random.. I like having the government to get in between shysters, hucksters, and me..
Reporter sent DNA samples to 3 different companies, and got 3 different and contradictory reports.
quotes from that article:
"“Your results are not the least bit surprising,” he (J Craig Venter, sequenced the human genome) told me. “Anything short of sequencing is going to be short on accuracy — and even then, there’s almost no comprehensive data sets to compare to.”
"But the major issue, experts say, is that the causes of most common diseases remain unknown. Genes account for just 5 to 20 percent of the whole picture.
'Even if they are accurately looking at 5 percent of the attributable risk, they’ve ignored the vast majority of the other risk factors.' "
Too many people complained after they were told that they didn't have the genes to a be a runner.
The government "protected" us from them! Yay!
old and in the way wrote:
the results were essentially random..
Sounds like the lottery. Which is legal...
old and in the way wrote:
the results were essentially random.. I like having the government to get in between shysters, hucksters, and me..
COMMUNIST!! DAMN YOU OBAMA!!!
UM, 1984 ANYONE???????
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
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