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As certain universities dived deeper with studies on monozygotic twins, they learned something shocking. “What we found are changes on the genetic level, the DNA sequence itself,” Jan Dumanksi, a genetics professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham said.
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All of the data is handled carefully by 23andMe so that they can prevent private information from becoming public knowledge. “We use the de-identified, aggregated data, for our research,” they said. “That means we decouple personally identifiable information from genetic information and store them in separate computing environments.” Even though they shared their data live on air, their data remains secure and private.