23andMe has gone below $50 for “Prime Day”! For those of us who bought kits (albeit more fully featured) at $399 or even more this is pretty incredible. But from what I’m to understand these sorts of SNP-chips are now possible to purchase from Illumina for well less than $50 so this isn’t charitable.
At minimum a way to get a raw genotype you can bank later.
Just impulse purchased this. I can remember watching 23&Me’s price drop steadily while I waited for it to get even lower when the FDA intervened and the company’s business model changed. I ended up purchasing ancestry’s kit a few months ago and still haven’t unlocked the data, so this might be too impulsive, but I was always curious to see how the three main company’s modeling differed and I’ll buy a $49 book for curiosity.
Can this be upgraded to the full health version, but still at a lower value than purchasing the whole thing at once ($200)?
Never mind. If you go to the actual 23&Me website, I can get the health + ancestry version for $129 for today only.
For people who buy today, downloading your raw data and using Promethease is an easy way to look at health info for an extra $5-10.
https://promethease.com/
sold so many they are now out of stock!
This kind of deal is great for testing as many family members as possible.
Having that data will add a lot of value to your own more expensive full sequence.
It’s still $249 here in Canada. Sigh.