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by k-mcgrady 4212 days ago
Personally I'd be much more comfortable taking the results and doing my own research or getting a Doctor's advice. I don't see how they can ever turn that feature back on when the risk of people blindly following the advice (and the chances of it being incorrect) are high enough.
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The power to do data analysis and then inform their users of potential trouble is, in my mind, the entire point of their service.

It doesn't have to be provided as 'advice' but rather a general statement such as '...other members have genetic markers that indicate a propensity toward heard disease; you share these same genetic markers and should be aware of potential issues in this regard.

That sounds fine with me actually.