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		michaelt 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself I don't like 23andme, but don't the shadow profiles sorta implicitly exist whenever you're working with DNA data? If their DNA test can recognise first cousins, then they've got a recognisable DNA profile for each user's parents, grandparents, children and so on.

nomdep 10 months ago [–]

So does the government and probably ancestors.com … what’s the big problem here?

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