November 9, 2012
This week our scientists have been busy at the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting in San Francisco. As promised we're putting up links to each of the posters that we presented at the meeting. It gives you a sense of the breadth and depth of 23andMe's research and our commitment to share our [...]
November 8, 2012
There are a lot of pie charts, numerical tables and graphs on display this week at the American Society of Human Genetics in San Francisco, but one caught our eye Wednesday morning. It was a graph put up by Dr. Cinnamon Bloss of the Scripps Translational Science Institute. Scripps has been studying [...]
November 7, 2012
(Editor's note: Here's a link to Emily's poster presented at ASHG.) Earlier this year 23andMe began surveying its customers to study the genetics of sexual orientation. It is now the largest genome-wide association study of sexual orientation ever done. While our researchers have a strong scientific [...]
November 6, 2012
(Editor's note: Here is a link to Joyce's poster presented at ASHG.) Genetic research often requires people willing to share their time and answer questions for the sake of scientific inquiry. Any study involving research participants should ensure that such volunteers are treated fairly and ethically. [...]
November 6, 2012
(Editor's note: Here's a link to a post with the links to all the poster presentations given by 23andMe scientists at 23andMe.) Here we come. Starting today a contingent of 23andMe’s scientists and researchers will be at the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting in San Francisco. [...]
November 5, 2012
(Editor's note: Here is a link to Cory's poster presented at ASHG.) Parkinson’s disease (PD) research has long been a priority at 23andMe. Our Parkinson’s research community is one of the largest in the world with over 9,300 patients. Our research on the disease has been published in peer-reviewed [...]
November 2, 2012
(Editor's note: Here is a link to Eoghan's poster presented at ASHG.) People often use the terms “genotyping” and “sequencing” interchangeably, but they are quite different ways of approaching genetic data. One large difference is the amount of data generated. Genotyping, what 23andMe does, [...]
November 1, 2012
(Editor's note: Here is a link to Brian's poster presented at ASHG.) Rare events are hard to study, and this is especially true in genetics. Imagine you have a group of four people carrying a mutation and two of them are also afflicted with same medical condition. Coincidence or correlation? Well, this [...]
October 26, 2012
What would you do if you found out that you had a rare and possibly life-threatening genetic mutation? You’d probably talk to relatives about your family medical history. You’d likely visit your doctor and maybe a specialist. You might even change your diet and exercise routines. Arnab Chowdry did all [...]
October 19, 2012
A common refrain for critics of direct to consumer genetic testing is that the tests could cause unnecessary worry. Those critics believe that for some tests the results shouldn’t go directly to a consumer and instead be delivered by a doctor or genetic counselor. We believe that a person shouldn’t [...]
