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by davecap1 4310 days ago
You still can! You just can't ask them to interpret the results for you. 23andMe will still give you access to your raw genetic variant data, they just won't tell you what it "means", simply because what they say might be incorrect. Genetic data interpretation is still quite hard to reproduce, and is very expensive to do well... which is why the FDA has been slow to regulate it.

The datasets used by 23andMe to interpret your genetic variants are the same datasets that you can get access to for free! If you know how to program, then you can use public datasets from the NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) or SolveBio (my startup, http://solve.bio) to compare your raw data to the clinical reference information you're interested in.