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by brianbarker 3890 days ago
I just like knowing I have the trait for smelling asparagus in urine.
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This doesn't seem like something you'd need a genetic test to determine.
I guess that was the point of the joke. All the interesting pieces of information, and more, can't be released by order of the FDA.
Hahah agreed with @kej. Jokes aside, I've held off getting 23andMe because of this reason. Does anyone know?
There have always been partners you can get the entire suite of results from.[1] I don't know how they haven't been restricted, but my guess is the FDA can't ban telling you what a SNP does, but the FDA can ban 23 and me selling it as a service connected somehow? Anyways, you can find out everything you wanted to know and a million other things you probably will have trouble of fully understanding.

[1] https://promethease.com/ and athletigen are two I've used that were pretty cool

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