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Importing genetic data

Now that you are selling DNA testing, a nice feature would be to allow customers to upload their own genetic data, like results from 23andMe. It would be extremely wasteful to pay for the same tests twice. Without such a feature, I suspect Geni would expose itself to open access competition. When DNA testing becomes far more popular than it is now nobody will pay for DNA testing at multiple companies just to find relatives who each will be using different services. There are already communities of people sharing marker data, they just are in the early stages. 

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