/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9881015
>Results demonstrate consensus that there are no human biological races
>>9881035
>There is no genetic or biological basis for race

so how can 23&Me tell you are black from Africa? Magic?

there is obviously a genetic/biological difference, in spite of what you might have heard in your 101 intro to social propaganda class.

Hey /sci/, how accurate is 23andMe?

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3623.html

Identification of 15 genetic loci associated with risk of major depression in individuals of European descent

We used self-report data from 75,607 individuals reporting clinical diagnosis of depression and 231,747 individuals reporting no history of depression through 23andMe and carried out meta-analysis of these results with published MDD genome-wide association study results. We identified five independent variants from four regions associated with self-report of clinical diagnosis or treatment for depression. Loci with a P value <1.0 × 10−5 in the meta-analysis were further analyzed in a replication data set (45,773 cases and 106,354 controls) from 23andMe. A total of 17 independent SNPs from 15 regions reached genome-wide significance after joint analysis over all three data sets. Some of these loci were also implicated in genome-wide association studies of related psychiatric traits. These studies provide evidence for large-scale consumer genomic data as a powerful and efficient complement to data collected from traditional means of ascertainment for neuropsychiatric disease genomics.

So I bought 23andMe and I'm unsure whether I should do it.

Is it dangerous?

Is it just a complete botnet ploy by Google?

Serious answers, should I return it?

Is it a scam?