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by amelius 3360 days ago
> I learned about all kinds of interesting genetic stuff

And there's much more to be found. The service of 23andme only records a limited set of SNPs. Further there is "multiomics" (see [1]), where not just the genome is sequenced but a complete biological fingerprint of metabolites is taken at different timepoints. This can e.g. give insight in onset of a disease even before any symptoms present themselves. I wonder when this will become available as a (mainstream) service, but I guess soon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiomics