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23andMe Blunder: Genome scan customers sent the wrong results

23 pointsby ashishbharthialmost 15 years ago

3 comments

acangianoalmost 15 years ago
The company should try to prevent this from ever happening again, that's for sure, but mistakes, even serious ones, happen everywhere. For example, hospitals mix up babies far too frequently (as mentioned in the article). Further regulation is not what's needed. In my opinion, 23andme remains an awesome service and one that shows we're "living in the future", so to speak.
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bclalmost 15 years ago
I find it somewhat silly that on finding out her son didn't match her first though was that he had been switched, rather than that there was an error in the testing. Which is more likely to happen?
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johnswampsalmost 15 years ago
I wonder if the error was due to the huge increase in orders they must have gotten after their 80% off sale a month and half ago?
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