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> Ancestry tests are useful for people from North and South America, Southern Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand

Not really. And they're inaccurate. Did they even publish their baselines?

> Propensity to alcohol dependency, propensity for fat retention, propensity for diabetes and high blood pressure

These should be between you and your GP. And I can tell you that you have a propensity to many addictions, just by assuming you're human. Don't test them. Don't rely on 23andme to validate "No propensity for gambling addication? Casinos, here I come!"



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