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Consumer genetic testing customers stretch their DNA data further with third-party interpretation websites

  • Written by Sarah Catherine Nelson, Research Scientist in Biostatistics, University of Washington
If you've got the raw data, why not mine it for more info?Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock.com

Back in 2016, Helen (a pseudonym) took three different direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests: AncestryDNA, 23andMe and FamilyTreeDNA. She saw genetic testing as a way to enhance her paper trail genealogy research, and it panned out when she matched with...

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