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Personal genomics company 23andMe has revealed that a lab mix-up resulted in as many as 96 customers receiving the wrong data. If you have a 23andMe account you can see the formal announcement of the problem here, and I've pasted the full text at the end of this post. It appears that a single 96-well plate of customer DNA was affected by the mix-up. This resulted in incorrect results being sent to customers, with some alarming consequences; one mother posted on the 23andMe community about h

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industry.bnet.com — “I posted yesterday on a serious incident at 23andMe's sample processing lab, LabCorp, that resulted in the wrong data being sent to up to 96 customers. The company has just posted a blog entry explaining the cause of the problem and the approaches being taken to ensure it doesn't happen again. As several commenters had speculated, the cause of the problem appears to have been the flipping of a 96-well plate (a solid block of plastic containing 96 separate samples in individual wells) b” View full resource at industry.bnet.com

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