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It isn't yours, if you use them you signed it all over to them. They patented your DNA.
You can't patent DNA... They can sell it though, with a simple TOS update (if they even need to).
https://geneticspolicy.nccrcg.org/policy-area/gene-patents/
For those too lazy to click through:
So if a lab rat adds, deletes or edits a person's DNA it is no longer a 'product of nature'?
Apparently.