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The real question is why would you put your genome into the hands of a company without a compelling reason beyond "This sounds cool"
A lot of people didn't, but their relatives did and now theyre implicated.
If my uncle did this, how would they get my information and genome over him? I read the Wikipedia article but still don't understand how this works.
Because 25% of your uncles DNA is the same as yours.
Okay, but they don't know which part and the don't even know I exist if my uncle isn't telling them?
They don't, but other companies like insurance might know. And they are the ones who's buying. They use multiple sources of data. And then they put 2 and 2 together.
Even though it's 25%, they will still calculate it as a risk.
Thanks for putting it together, now I understand the reasoning.
I'll have to get the name of the specific murder porn show from my wife, but there's one where they go into detail about how they find a suspect with DNA by finding people with a close enough match to narrow down the family tree and get super close to the actual person, if not the exact person.
So I can prove that I'm 3% black and get my word pass. /s
/s and still at -6. Wow, Lemmy. I'm hoping the joke just went overhead.
Maybe the joke just wasn't funny
Apparently my comment making fun of white supremacists wasn't taken well by the mods.
Either it went over people's heads or hit too close to home. I dunno.
What joke? Jokes are supposed to at least try to be funny.
It was just another cynical explanation for the type of person to get a vanity dna test. Do people not realize that racial supremacists are getting these test and bragging if they like the results?
It being cool is a compelling reason.
https://forums.escapistmagazine.com/threads/facebook-ceo-people-who-trust-me-are-dumb-f-cks.48899/
How else are you going to get it?
"I use discord cos It is so cool"...