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Metus comments on Discovering Your Secretly Secret Sensory Experiences - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: seez 18 March 2014 10:12AM

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Comment author: Metus 19 March 2014 09:01:03PM 0 points [-]

I don't know how high or low 23andme's error rate is but it has to be taken into account. And of course, as always with genetics, environmental factors play a role.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 19 March 2014 10:29:45PM 3 points [-]

And a couple thousand other genes with many many many variants apiece that affect some part of your nervous system from your tongue to your brain, or a variant of the gene that 23andme sees as a known variant from part of its sequence that the microarray binds to but has a rare or unique difference elsewhere in the same gene that isn't in the catalog.