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A Major Drug Company Now Has Access to 23andMe’s Genetic Data. Should You Be Concerned?
Should consumers be concerned? Consumer genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Wednesday that GlaxoSmithKline purchased a $300 million stake in the company, allowing the pharmaceutical giant to use 23andMe’s trove of genetic data to develop new drugs — and raising new privacy concerns for consumers.
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Only if you paid them to take your DNA data and store it, or one of your blood relatives did.
Although I didn't forsee this, I'm not a fan at all of 23andMe, and this has just reinforced my (low) opinion of them. I'd never get any testing like that done, and if for some reason I wanted to, it would not be through 23andMe, and it would only be with genetic counseling done first.
Same here...Why should some drug company get my info and profit from it and i get nothing? If I needed one of the drugs they created from 23& Me do you think I'd get it free or discounted? Oh hell no!