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In reply to the discussion: FDA halts sales of 23andMe DNA test kits [View all]nolabear
(43,850 posts)If you purchase and register you can access the community on the website, where lots of discussion is going on. I'm not so much interested in genetic markers for health as ancestral background.
As far as I can tell customers want the FDA to back off, and are pretty well informed as to what they are getting. I was concerned that they wouldn't be able to process what they've got, including mine (should be done in another week or two) but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Several companies do this, and only if they're making false promises can I see shutting them down. Will people do things like prophylactic mastectomies based on something they see in the results? Probably. But people do all kinds of things for reasons that aren't easy to fathom. If they're being deceptive and the results are fake, then hell yeah, but that doesn't seem to be the case and I didn't think they misrepresented a thing.
I'm just hoping I find something really interesting to torture my sisters with back there.