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by fragmede 935 days ago
Shit, 23andme.com's discounted to $99 right now.
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treyd 935 days ago
Doesn't 23andme only do localized sequencing for particular SNPs that are relevant for genealogical investigation? I didn't think they did full-genome sequencing.
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fragmede 935 days ago
they used to offer full data download but it looks like they disabled that. Nebula Genomics is offering to do it for $500 with black Friday sales, which is close.
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marchukov 935 days ago
Hm. Apparently I was wrong. They indeed "temporarily" disabled it after the credential stuffing attack [1].

[1] https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212196868...

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marchukov 935 days ago
They still do (update: not they are not). It is not and was not a full genome sequencing, but rather a SNP genotyping. Current 23andme raw report (using their v5 chip) contains around 24K SNPs.
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autoexec 935 days ago
With their history of selling and leaking people's DNA, 23andme doesn't seem like such a great deal at any price.
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vibrio 935 days ago
Low price genotyping makes me think of the maxim: “ If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product .”
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