Funny. A couple days after I heard about this FDA action, I went to 23andme's web site, bought their kit and now it's sitting on my desk waiting for me to spit into it. I've been putting it off for ages. It looks like the FDA letter prevents them from marketing, but not selling. Fortunately, the news of the FDA letter is free marketing for them, for a while at least.

I saw one of their commercials on TV yesterday...so I guess the FDA did not shut them down after all?

there is also a class action lawsuit now

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro...ainst-23andme/

Interesting piece in Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/articles...ber-and-airbnb


Here is a petition as well
https://www.change.org/petitions/fda...-genomics-kits

I just received a brochure from 23andme a few weeks ago. I put it on the side so I could do it after the holidays. Needless to say, I'm disappointed!

Another article on this talking about how the insurance companies view this.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3022224/i...ance-companies

The author sent her required samples to three labs, with three DIFFERENT sets of results, some contradictory.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/sc...ml?ref=science

"In the case of rheumatoid arthritis, though, the tests examined the same five markers, plus a few others, and delivered contradictory interpretations."

"J. Craig Venter, chief executive of his namesake institute and of Synthetic Genomics, was a pioneer in sequencing the human genome in 2000. Though he issued recommendations to genetic testing companies four years ago to help them improve their predictions, he remains skeptical of their clinical value."

“Your results are not the least bit surprising,” he told me. “Anything short of sequencing is going to be short on accuracy — and even then, there’s almost no comprehensive data sets to compare to.”

Buy Beware!

Hugs, Elaine

I had this done a few months ago and enjoyed the Ancestral History. The medical stuff was good to see as well and not a whole lot surprised of any findings.

I know my ancestral history and what I have. Lucky me. 23 & Me doesn't test for CMT anyway. That is through DNA blood testing, EMG/NCV for two types of it and family history can be helpful.