deCODEme and its questionable disease-risk predictions
(UPDATED: Original final paragraphs on 23andMe broken out as a separate post here.)
A few days ago, I noted that deCODEme, the personal-genomics spinoff of Iceland’s deCODE Genetics, looks to be offering disease-risk predictions based on surprisingly thin evidence. I looked into it a little more deeply, and while I’m not a geneticist or even a close approximation thereof, I’m still a little taken aback by how little deCODEme currently seems to be flying on where many… Continue Reading