1.5M views · Sep 7, 2017 · 14:24 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2018–2019
Destin of Smarter Every Day goes behind the scenes at the 23andMe lab to show how genotyping works. He also discusses DNA testing and privacy.
Why Hacker News points people here: Pointed to as an interesting look inside how consumer DNA testing companies process samples.
“Smarter Every Day made a pretty interesting video about 23&Me.”HN comment, 2019
“Smarter Every Day made a pretty interesting video about 23&Me.”
Interesting perspective on 23andMe from behind the scenes
Smarter Every Day made a pretty interesting video about 23&Me. this video . I'm not pro/anti 23&Me or anything but it brings an interesting perspective.
influencers are very selective with their 'reviews' and may chose to leave out things like data-privacy policies, when reviewing a company that provides you DNA analysis -- which should make you question all the information you get from such sources this video
Shows how DNA testing companies process samples
Wait a second, I though these companies didn't sequence DNA. I thought most of them just ran your DNA against known patterns to see if they patch to give you a probably/percentage of ancestry, with all the original samples being destroyed: this video Does ancestry actually sample and save entire DNA sequences (I guess they have to in order to do family tree matching)? Crazy.
