23andme False medical reports Internet
As previous posters have described, the medical reports are inaccurate. I had my DNA tested through this company and they stated that I was NOT a Tay Sachs carrier. I have been tested by 3 separate labs and they have all said that I AM a carrier. What is worrisome is that Tay Sachs is an easy test to administer, any basic lab can run the test and get results. The company states that it does not test for the French-Canadian variant of this gene and hence I must be French-Canadian, which is also inaccurate. They just flat out refuse to take any responsibility for shoddy sequencing work. This is especially troubling because young women may not get tested thinking they do not carry the gene , when in fact they do.
As far as the genealogy reports, I found them to be ambiguous at best. According to them , I am 95% European, which as a Caucasian, I expect. It is not broken down by region. I did not receive any information, I didn’t already know.