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Sadeghi: 23andMe Offers Superficial Traits Despite Massive Advances in Genetics
“There's all this research, there's all these insights, there's all this innovation, right? But we're stuck with Do you like chocolate or not from 23 and me? Like, what's going on here, right?”
Sadeghi: 23andMe Used Microarrays Because Genome Sequencing Cost $20M in 2006
“23 and me, they got started in 2006, the cost of sequencing the genome at that point was around twenty million dollars per sample, ok. So they couldn't actually employ the technology to read the entirety of someone's DNA, all six billion letters. They opted fo…”