• TryingToEscapeTarkov@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I never understood the appeal of the business in the first place. Why would you care who your great great great grandpa was? I don’t even care who my Grandpa was.

    • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Why would you care who your great great great grandpa was?

      I was able to find out that my great grandfather was adopted, and meet a whole new wing of my family. I didn’t even do the test, my aunt did.

    • JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      About 10 years ago they provided medical data from the samples. I used 23 And Me too confirm that a health problem I’d recently been diagnosed with was hereditary. At the time I remember being asked if my sample could be used to aid the type of research the OP talks about and I agreed to it.

      A couple of years ago, I think 23 And Me was bought out by Virgin Healthcare, at that point I asked them to destroy all my data was worried about it being used to increase the cost of or preclude health insurance.