The main priority of these medical and genetic companies is to make money. Safety, ethics and privacy are secondary until they effect the profit. It seems increasingly apparent that public funding and open source efforts are required to advance the science, healing and education of our planet.<p>DNA SNPs are one thing, but genetic expression (phenotype) is immensely complex due to the number of variables. For example, mammalian immune systems are highly redundant across the body and continually signal with cytokines and chemokines to manipulate the immune response that is internally/externally environment dependent.
Our bodies continually work to remove/detox OR sequester pathogens, toxins, metals, etc. This usually results in isolated and/or systemic inflammation across the body. Many of the pathogens manifest with overlapping symptoms making it hard to isolate without better diagnostic tools. For example, my two strains of Bartonella cause inflammation in many similar areas that Lyme bacteria do and Babesia has another similar set. It is hard to isolate those symptoms from the mold toxins and metal (aluminum, arsenic, lead) buildup that I also have. Functional doctors believe the HLA SNPs play a role in accumulation rather than removal. Enter saunas/sweat tents/etc that many cultures used for centuries (lymphatic detox).<p>Enter public funding to invent better and cheaper measuring equipment where each of us owns the data. Privacy protection is also important. We live on a planet with immense biodiversity, albeit shrinking daily due to human activities, where we coexist with bacteria, pathogens, molecules, industrial toxins, etc -- It's time we start to learn more about everything ... gathering data in a coherent schema and applying ML can certainly help.<p>That is why there are a number of studies that list various pathogens in brain deposits for Alzheimers, MS, Giant Cell, etc -- Feel free to google and research many of the terms above and reach your own conclusions :-)