Consumer biomarker-testing kits (like 23andme, and the equivalents for whole-genome sequencing, proteomics, microbiome, etc) don't make a ton of practical sense to me as a path towards new medical treatments.
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and b.) users' inertia or inaccuracy about entering all their medical history info.
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Meanwhile, large (>100,000) biobanks funded by universities, governments, and nonprofits, may be an equally good resource for research discovering new correlations between biomarkers and diseases. Some countries collect data & samples from all their citizens!
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Doesn't 23andme have a ton of data? e.g. https://www.livescience.com/63173-23andme-partnership-glaxosmithkline.html …
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Genetic data, yes. Health information, maybe not. How many of those 5 million are filling out all the quizzes?
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