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by ocdtrekkie 2723 days ago
Big pharma is super excited about buying access to this data: https://mediacenter.23andme.com/press-releases/gsk-and-23and... and https://venturebeat.com/2015/01/14/23andme-has-signed-12-oth...

I wouldn't be super surprised to see insurance companies get in on the game, though there's already laws against discrimination on the basis of genetic information, so I'd be interested to see if that would face any regulatory blowback: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/g...