23andMe Research
Massive study on the genetics of educational attainment
In one of the largest genetic studies ever done, an international consortium of scientists has found more than 1,200 genetic variants associated with educational attainment, which is defined as the number of years individuals spent in school or university.
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Health and Traits
Itching to See 23andMe’s New Trait Reports
23andMe released a new batch of trait reports that look at whether your DNA indicates you might be tastier to mosquitoes than others, or why you can sing back a musical note or get the heebie-jeebies looking down from great heights, or even why your hair lightens in the sun.
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Ancestry
Happy National Cousins Day
On National Cousins Day we bring you the story of Lisa Henry and Joyce Schur, who are so close that they always felt like they were more than just friends, and after using 23andme they learned they are actually cousins.
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23andMe Customer Stories
23andMe Helps Adoptee Find Biological Family
He Richard had long ago stopped expecting he’d find anything about his biological family, but 23andMe helped the 50-year-old adoptee find his half-sister and learn about his biological family.
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23andMe Helps Adoptee Find Biological Family
He Richard had long ago stopped expecting he’d find anything about his biological family, but 23andMe helped the 50-year-old adoptee find his half-sister and learn about his biological family.
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Book Review: She Has Her Mother’s Laugh
A book review of Carl Zimmer’s massive new book “She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity.”
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Best Practices for Protecting Consumers’ Privacy
23andMe joined forces with non-profit organization Future Privacy Forum along with Ancestry, Helix, and other leading personal genetic testing companies to issue a new Privacy Best Practices for Consumer Genetic Testing Services.
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Itching to See 23andMe’s New Trait Reports
23andMe released a new batch of trait reports that look at whether your DNA indicates you might be tastier to mosquitoes than others, or why you can sing back a musical note or get the heebie-jeebies looking down from great heights, or even why your hair lightens in the sun.
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A Note On 23andMe’s New Collaboration with GSK
23andMe announces the launch of a collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to accelerate our ability to make meaningful discoveries in therapeutics to treat disease.
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Happy National Cousins Day
On National Cousins Day we bring you the story of Lisa Henry and Joyce Schur, who are so close that they always felt like they were more than just friends, and after using 23andme they learned they are actually cousins.
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23andMe Helps Adoptee Find Biological Family
He Richard had long ago stopped expecting he’d find anything about his biological family, but 23andMe helped the 50-year-old adoptee find his half-sister and learn about his biological family.
Read More
Book Review: She Has Her Mother’s Laugh
A book review of Carl Zimmer’s massive new book “She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity.”
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Best Practices for Protecting Consumers’ Privacy
23andMe joined forces with non-profit organization Future Privacy Forum along with Ancestry, Helix, and other leading personal genetic testing companies to issue a new Privacy Best Practices for Consumer Genetic Testing Services.
Read More
Itching to See 23andMe’s New Trait Reports
23andMe released a new batch of trait reports that look at whether your DNA indicates you might be tastier to mosquitoes than others, or why you can sing back a musical note or get the heebie-jeebies looking down from great heights, or even why your hair lightens in the sun.
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A Note On 23andMe’s New Collaboration with GSK
23andMe announces the launch of a collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to accelerate our ability to make meaningful discoveries in therapeutics to treat disease.
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Happy National Cousins Day
On National Cousins Day we bring you the story of Lisa Henry and Joyce Schur, who are so close that they always felt like they were more than just friends, and after using 23andme they learned they are actually cousins.
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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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Party Till You Spit
A Spit Party is kind of like a Tupperware Party, only the plastic containers are smaller and they’re not for leftovers.23andMe held the first one a few days after our…
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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 BotY honors on “Human…
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Silly Rabbit, Spit Comes from Quids
A few years back, archaeologist Anna Dhody was thinking about how amazing it is that DNA forensic scientists can collect DNA evidence from nothing more than a discarded cigarette butt…
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Sex, money, dancing, eating….and voles?
At the end of last year (2007) you may have seen reports claiming that scientists in Israel discovered the “gene for altruism.” What they actually found was that a variation…
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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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