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Posted by MikeC/TX on 1/30/19 5:31pm
You can't detect it from a mouth swab - what they're looking for is genetic markers that would indicate a potential risk. I would guess that if the risk was high, that would lead to additional testing or screening. Maybe that's part of the scam - convince someone to get more expensive screening because their DNA shows they are genetically liable to have whatever is being tested.
This whole thing raises a lot of red flags. The universe of customers all seem to be elderly, and no one knows who ordered the test or why. It just smells like a scam. To me, this is right up there with the debt consolidation stuff - run, don't walk in the opposite direction.
As for the Ancestry-type DNA testing, at least one company (23 and Me) has been accused of selling its DNA testing results either without notifying customers or burying the fact that they intended to do so deep within one of those Terms of Service documents no one ever reads.
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