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"All my exes have the VEXAS". Couldn't resist singing that... Reverse engineering at its finest. I bought into 23andMe shortly after it became available, When I received my "genetic report" I sent it in (paying $10 or so each time) to various crunchers of the data to find out more about "me". After the third magical algorithm analyzed my report, I realized this was a crock of sh!t. "You may get cancer" "You might have blonde hair" "You are a fast metabilizer of caffeine". What I think: genetics can tell you some obvious, unchangeable characterisitcs, but beyond that, it is just massive speculation.

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Agreed. They collect data and give people unsubstantiated stories.

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