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Ancestry data, but also health markers. I.e. you're probably going to get macular degeneration, Tay-Sachs and cervical cancer.

Once I enabled the social graph thing I was immediately hounded by distant relatives who I assume want to chop me up for parts.

> Do we even know how accurate it is at doing that?

The police have closed a few cold murder cases based on adjacency (once Parabon got their hands on samples), so it must be pretty accurate.

Anecdotally, my profile told a radically different story about our ancestry than my family's vague lore led me to believe. 23andMe's data made way more sense.



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