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The clause establishes that research participation results in the user's deidentified data being combined into a collective dataset, which has implications for how individual data contributes to broader research outputs.
If the reader opts into research, their deidentified data will be pooled with other participants' data by 23andMe.
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The clause establishes that research participation results in the user's deidentified data being combined into a collective dataset, which has implications for how individual data contributes to broader research outputs.
If the reader opts into research, their deidentified data will be pooled with other participants' data by 23andMe.
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