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by dekhn 3368 days ago
I did Illumina UYG. As part of that I got a 1TB hard drive with the nearly-raw files (BAM format with raw reads, VCF with variants).

Lots of people say " I for one would be interested in looking for certain gene variants that are not mentioned at all over at 23andMe." but they either never do anything with the data, or they look into it and realize that SNP analysis of gene variants is still a charltan's game.

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For those interested in doing this, I will second parent. I have my full genome sequenced, and learned basically nothing that was all that interesting or actionable. It is very early days for DNA analysis.
So what did you do with all the data?
I archived it to cloud storage because I've decided that this raw data has no utility except to waste my time.
Then why pay so much money for the exhaustive test in the first place when other tests are on the market? (Ownership over the results maybe?)
I didn't pay, personally.