Resurrecting this to include some significant updates:
The list price has doubled to $199, although I was able to order last week on a referral special for $149.
The health reports are now back with a vengeance. They include traits, wellness, and carrier status.
From their site:
I personally have next-to-no interest in the health reports; my only interest is genealogy and potentially contacting second-third cousins. But for those interested, there seems to be a wealth of data available (I reviewed a friend’s results to see the breadth).
Frankly, I think they’re pricing themselves out of the market at $199 (one competitor was offering a sale at $69, though without health data), which I suspect is what triggered the $149 special I was able to get via a referral, but we’ll see.
I joined before the FDA got their hooks in them which means I have a medical analysis of my genes as well (likelihood of acquiring certain genetically linked diseases) They’re slowing reviving that as well so your report will get updated as time goes on.
If I was just doing it for genealogy I would do ancestry’s DNA test instead since they have a lot more data to back up the gene locations as well as in my opinion a better way to meet up with your family you didn’t know you had. I’ve met quite a few cousins that I never knew on there.
I wouldn’t be interested in the possibility of finding genetic relatives (that depends on the extent of their database of individuals, so it would be very much a matter of choice). It might be quite interesting to find out about the broad haplogroups in my make-up, and their movements across the world to get to me. I can already work out more modern genetic types from what I already know going back half a dozen or more generations.
But what would really interest me is, what material benefit are they proposing to extract from all the genetic data they are going to collect this way, what share of that are they proposing to offer me, and what control would I have over how they use my specific genetic data?