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If 23andMe goes bankrupt its 15 million customers and their families may be at risk, experts say
Read full article: If 23andMe goes bankrupt its 15 million customers and their families may be at risk, experts say23andMe, the popular at-home genetic testing company, has helped millions of people uncover their family roots and health risks through DNA analysis. Experts fear as the company faces financial issues they may sell the data.
‘We may have something in common’: Gifts of DNA tests spur paternity surprises, lawsuits
Read full article: ‘We may have something in common’: Gifts of DNA tests spur paternity surprises, lawsuitsVanner Johnson’s wife, Donna, had purchased the take-home genetic testing kit 23andMe for fun. But when her husband received his family’s 23andMe results in August 2019, he noticed something odd. His 11-year-old son, Tim, wasn’t listed as his biological relative. The couple soon learned that the hospital where Donna had undergone in vitro fertilization (IVF) 12 years earlier had likely mixed up the sperm samples. Vanner wasn’t Tim’s biological dad.