Author: ScottH


December 26, 2012

23andMe’s Ancestry Composition Driving Circles Around the Rest

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December was a busy month for 23andMe and in the midst of the hubbub we put out Ancestry Composition, an amazing feature that gives finer detail of an individual’s heritage going back generations. Since its release we’ve heard some great feedback saying the feature has set a new standard in the [...]

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December 20, 2012

Top Genetic Findings of 2012

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Take a moment to look back at the ten most interesting and significant genetic findings of 2012 or at least the ones that drew our attention. In the last 12 months we’ve seen huge strides in genetic research giving us new insight into serious conditions such as Alzheimer’s as well as new treatments for [...]

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December 19, 2012

DNA, Eh — Canadian Genome Project in the News

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You’ve got to love the lead sentence of the Daily Globe and Mail story about the launch of a Canadian Genome Project: “Jill Davies is Canuck One.” Ms. Davies is the first of what researchers hope will be 100,000 people to join the Personal Genome Project in Canada. Like its counterpart in the [...]

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December 13, 2012

23andMe’s Newest Feature Explores Your Ancestry

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Mike and Eric Our team rolled out a new feature called Ancestry Composition last week that will tell you more about what you’re made of, or more precisely, the geographic origins of your DNA. Principal Product Scientist Mike Macpherson, former Research Scientist Chuong “Tom” Do, and Computational [...]

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December 6, 2012

New Discoveries about Rare Blood Disorders from 23andMe

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Earlier this year we met our goal of enrolling 1,000 people in a community of people with a collection of rare blood disorders known as myeloproliferative neoplasms, or MPNs. Since then we’ve been able to replicate known genetic associations with these rare disorders, as well as make new findings of our [...]

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December 4, 2012

Three New Research Projects from 23andMe

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23andMe received more than half a million dollars recently from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for three research projects. The grants support some of the important online genome-wide association studies 23andMe has pioneered — in this case one grant will go towards research into the genetics of [...]

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December 3, 2012

The Genetics of Cilantro Taste Preference

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It isn’t just our political persuasions that divide us but our cilantro affiliations too. And it turns out that whether we like the herb or hate it has something to do with genetics, as we’ve blogged about before. Last week, the online peer-reviewed journal Flavour published our research paper on a [...]

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November 28, 2012

23andCuriosity

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Earlier this month Public Health Genomics published a paper by a team of Swiss researchers that reinforces the growing body of work showing consumers’ positive experiences with personal genetic testing. In this study, the participants were life science students at the University of Zurich who purchased the [...]

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November 19, 2012

More Fun with Neanderthals

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In another example of how fascinated we are with Neanderthals — our ancient human ancestors — last week the Colbert Report featured British paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer. In a few minutes that were peppered with quips from Stephen Colbert, Stringer managed to explain a couple hundred thousand [...]

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November 16, 2012

Another Hero in the Fight Against Parkinson’s

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Another friend of 23andMe, Rich Clifford, the former NASA astronaut who has become a powerful voice for those with Parkinson’s, was recently featured on CNN. Always an inspiration, Rich spoke with CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta about his life with Parkinson’s disease. A career military officer, he flew on [...]

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