DNA firm launches at usa for tests
A COMPANY Has re-launch the company in the United States after the Food and Drug Administration approved the DNA tests for 36 diseases.And dealt with the health reports 23andMe 254 genetic diseases institution before it was banned by the FDA in 2013, and still allows you to determine the risk of the development of user conditions 36.
But you will be able to know whether they carry any of the conditions and the risk of transmission to children.
He also said that he refused police requests the United States to the genetic data of customers.
He said in the last 10 years, he has received four applications from three of the five state agencies and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Service - which already has more than one million users - now offers to customers, to provide saliva test and pay 199 $ (£ 125) health reports of 36 diseases, such as cystic fibrosis and sickle sickle cell inherited.
Since the ban in 2013 on the medical examinations, 23andMe Foundation for users in the United States has offered a limited service, providing reports and ratios not interpret raw data.
And they will receive a collapse preparations hereditary, including non-medical inherited traits such as bitter taste perception, lactose intolerance and even cosmetic features such as dimples in the cheeks or curly hair.
But the service does not test for common conditions such as heart attack, asthma, breast cancer and ovarian cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
In a statement, Chief Executive Officer Anne Wojcicki said: "We have worked with the Food and Drug Administration for nearly two years to create a regulatory path for genetic tests directly to the consumer.
"We are now better business with a better product."
Experts have questioned that the test results will be on the users.
Said Dr. Brian Zikmund Fisher of the University of Michigan: "There is a risk that someone decided to get tested because they are interested in the disease, but in the end it is likely to alter the information about another one like that once they were less willing to consider."
23andMe Foundation also operates in the United Kingdom, and offering more than 100 reports about health conditions and inherited characteristics.
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