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This article really, really reads like an ad.

To the precious poster who did not sign, I agree. I'm adding a tag to address this.TPREX (talk) 05:04, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agree that this is ad-like. I note in particular that care is taken to avoid names of competing vendors, placing in context of existing and better established genetic tests, etc. 152.132.8.194 (talk) 13:27, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. It reads like an ad and does not mention other companies. Moreover, there's a lack of any criticism and objectivity on the usefulness of results given to clients. It has been shown that many deseases are not governed by an existing genetic predisposition but more by lifestyle, nutrition, exercises... In 2010, a blog of the scientific magazine Nature reported that 23andme had mixed up samples off 96 clients. (http://blogs.nature.com/news/2010/06/consumer_genomics_company_snaf_1.html)

Expansion

There have been a number of news articles about this company (and its competitors) relatively recently, which could be used as sources in an expansion of this article. I may do it myself later, but in case anyone gets to it before I do, here are some which may prove useful:

It's also all over various blogs, for those who wish more background, but those are of course generally not considered reliable sources.

Thanks, JavaTenor (talk) 22:27, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Name origin

I think it would be interesting to note the origin of the company's name, especially for non-native English speakers.

88.1.6.247 (talk) 13:50, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Wired article referenced at the end of the entry says "The company's name is a reference to the 23 pairs of chromosomes that contain our DNA." I'm guessing that they wanted the shortest possible (yet still intelligible) name based on that. Bricology (talk) 18:02, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Catalog of Medical Genetics Companies

This article begins with a mini-catalog of companies in the field. Maybe such a catalog would be more appropriate in the Medical genetics page. Genomas [1] is another genetic medicine company to include in such a catalog. Page Notes (talk) 15:17, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Logo or something

Is it possible to get a logo (even low-res) to represent the article? 76.200.157.188 (talk) 03:55, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Last line, "However, critics warn..."

"However, critics warn in the scientific literature that health predictions are not currently effective enough to have any clinical utility.[11]" Regardless of the citation, I don't believe the line contributes anything to this article. It would be more relevant and appropriate to discuss opinions regarding health predictions elsewhere. To me, there doesn't appear to be a good reason for this line to be in this article and I think it should be deleted.Russell Dent (talk) 14:28, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would nuke that as well. --Threeafterthree (talk) 14:34, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]