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- usa@lemmy.ml
I had no idea they were running a prescription mill lmao
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Always found it weird how Americans fixate on the percentage of their ancestry. Guess it makes sense with how big they’ve historically been with eugenics.
“I’m 45% Italian and 20% Irish. That’s why I have such a bad temper and struggle with alcoholism lololololol”
it's because of hegemonic mayoness and a century of consumerism. assimilation destroyed a lot of cultural heritage (nowhere near as completely the slave trade, but i'm still cut off) and we're lucky if we use one of great great grandma's holiday recipes.
I guess the fact that they give everyone's genetic data to police and feds was not as big a selling point as they had hoped it would be.
Too bad they did not commit mass seppuku on their way out.
What is the plan there, harvest people's biological data and prescribe them drugs? No one is buying the service more than once right?
They’re likely selling that information to insurance companies, law enforcement, military, pharma, etc.
They locked the most useful analysis and results from a one off test behind an expensive subscription model.
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Probably if they find out there's a cancer that's connected to a certain gene, you get a cool little notification. I guess it's like keeping your genetic information available?
Yes. Some pharmaceutical regimens effectiveness is dependent on patient genome. In other cases, cancer or viral genome. Pharmacogenomics is an emerging field concerned with these things.
I love to pay a subscription for something I will only use one time, great business model!
The article is paywalled so I didn't read, but sounds like they're pivoting to pharmacogenomics. This field analyzes the genes that code for proteins involved in human drug metabolism. If applied properly it can help narrow down pharmaceutical treatment options. Think of cases where a patient's enzymes may render certain drugs ineffective. If you know a patient is an ultrarapid metabolizer of a given drug, then maybe you don't need to waste everyone's time trialing it.
How they schemed to create a perpetual revenue stream from this, I can only guess. My brain doesn't work like theirs.
Probably get more investor money until they're able to find a way to squeeze cash out of that data. Sounds like that plan is falling flat, though.
My brother did this and all it proved was that my grandparents weren't lying about where they were from
Which, like, wow
Critical support for exposing gramgram’s lies about being Native American
My mom did it with us when I was still a kid, only to find out that my Dad's side of the family was lying about being native
I don't talk to that side of the family anymore and lying about racial identity isn't even in the top 20 reasons. It was awkward as a teen though, it made me feel like I had no actual roots because my family denied the roots I did have. Especially because I was dark enough as a teen to be on the receiving end of racial discrimination. It put me in a really weird spot identity wise for a while, but the more I deprogram myself from western brain worms the less weird it is
My mom wants me to get it because we don't know much about my dad's side and I'm just all "Yeah good idea give a bunch of fucking ghouls my genetics so they can use it to discriminate against me in ten years when the last of the democrats (who will still think civility works even as a bullet goes out the back of their brains) are finally executed by the fascist republican regime who then buy the data with tax dollars in a kickback scheme orchestrated by Don Jr."
Hilariously my mom's results came back 124% white with a 2% margin of error.
Hilariously my mom's results came back 124% white with a 2% margin of error.
The extra 24% is pure undiluted
I found out my biological grand pappy was a house burglar of some esteem. My wife said she always knew I was deep down in my blood a bad boy.
Last time some boomer told me their percentages I replied with “I thought you were American”
Slurpin a quick release perc off the plate, like a pinto bean
Anne Wojak? Any relations to the late YouTube CEO Susan Wojak?
this is almost as big of an embarrassment for Anne Wojcicki as fucking Sergey Brin
