23andMe Research
A Conversation with Nilanjan Chatterjee
Johns Hopkins University statistical geneticist, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Ph.D., a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, to help us at 23andMe put into context the work being done around the world on polygenic risk modeling.
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Health and Traits
23andMe’s My Health Action Plan
The initial release of My Health Action Plan is part of 23andMe’s continued push to create personalized health recommendations based on genetics and lifestyle that our customers can benefit from.
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Ancestry
Travel as unique as your DNA with 23andMe and Airbnb
Your DNA offers much more than just insights into your origins, it may help you map out your next travel itinerary. 23andMe and Airbnb are teaming up to offer customers a…
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23andMe Customer Stories
More 23andMe Father’s Day Connections
We’ve heard from many customers who have connected with their birth fathers through 23andMe. As we gear up to celebrate Father’s Day, we wanted to share a few of those stories of customers preparing to celebrate their first Father’s Day with their newfound birth father.
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23andMe’s My Health Action Plan
The initial release of My Health Action Plan is part of 23andMe’s continued push to create personalized health recommendations based on genetics and lifestyle that our customers can benefit from.
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People with Depression or Bipolar Disorder Want Better Treatment and Care
The Milken Institute, one of two collaborators with 23andMe’s Depression and Bipolar Study, began the survey last year and found that 89 percent of those with depression or bipolar disorder or both said there was a need for better treatments and care.
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Glassdoor Names 23andMe’s Anne Wojcicki A Top CEO
Great workers make for great places to work, and at 23andMe, it all starts at the top with CEO and Co-Founder Anne Wojcicki.This week Glassdoor, one of the world’s largest…
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Meet 23andMe’s Head of Therapeutics Kenneth Hillan
23andMe’s Head of Therapeutics Kenneth Hillan, M.B., Ch.B., discussed his career and the vision for 23andMe’s work in therapeutics
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Fear Not Public Speaking: New Report
About a quarter of Americans report having a fear of public speaking, and it turns out that some of that fear can be attributed to genetics. 23andMe’s new trait report looks at one’s likelihood of having a fear of public speaking.
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More 23andMe Father’s Day Connections
We’ve heard from many customers who have connected with their birth fathers through 23andMe. As we gear up to celebrate Father’s Day, we wanted to share a few of those stories of customers preparing to celebrate their first Father’s Day with their newfound birth father.
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23andMe’s My Health Action Plan
The initial release of My Health Action Plan is part of 23andMe’s continued push to create personalized health recommendations based on genetics and lifestyle that our customers can benefit from.
Read More
People with Depression or Bipolar Disorder Want Better Treatment and Care
The Milken Institute, one of two collaborators with 23andMe’s Depression and Bipolar Study, began the survey last year and found that 89 percent of those with depression or bipolar disorder or both said there was a need for better treatments and care.
Read More
Glassdoor Names 23andMe’s Anne Wojcicki A Top CEO
Great workers make for great places to work, and at 23andMe, it all starts at the top with CEO and Co-Founder Anne Wojcicki.This week Glassdoor, one of the world’s largest…
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Meet 23andMe’s Head of Therapeutics Kenneth Hillan
23andMe’s Head of Therapeutics Kenneth Hillan, M.B., Ch.B., discussed his career and the vision for 23andMe’s work in therapeutics
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Fear Not Public Speaking: New Report
About a quarter of Americans report having a fear of public speaking, and it turns out that some of that fear can be attributed to genetics. 23andMe’s new trait report looks at one’s likelihood of having a fear of public speaking.
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More 23andMe Father’s Day Connections
We’ve heard from many customers who have connected with their birth fathers through 23andMe. As we gear up to celebrate Father’s Day, we wanted to share a few of those stories of customers preparing to celebrate their first Father’s Day with their newfound birth father.
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Colonists and Colon Cancer
When Mr. and Mrs. George Fry arrived in the New World nearly four centuries ago, they brought with them not just dreams of a better life, but a curse —…
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Breakthrough of the Year
A certain provider of personal genetic information is mentioned in Science magazine’s Breakthrough of the Year article, published in the Dec. 21 issue.The journal bestowed 2007 Breakthrough of the Year…
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My Genome is in a Tube of Spit?
Spit has DNA? Well, not exactly. Spit has cells in it, and the cells have DNA. For everything except bacteria (and some other types of single-celled organisms), DNA is wound…
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Welcome to 23andMe’s blog!
(Editor’s note 3/19: A lot has changed since we first started our blog, which was once cheekily dubbed The Spittoon. But the most important principals still drive us. Helping people…
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The Power of We
23andMe enables individuals to form communities around shared interests and to empower those communities to be actively involved with research
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Share Data in the Name of Science
It’s hard to believe that unwillingness to share data is one of the biggest obstacles to the advancement of science today. But researchers and the institutions they work for expend…
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