23andMe Research
A Genetic Study Looking at the Natural Diversity of Human Sexuality
A new international study looking at same-sex sexual relations did not find a “gay gene,” but it did find thousands of genetic variants that influence same-sex sexual behavior. Across all the thousands of genetic variants found they explain somewhere between 8 and 25 percent of the variation in same-sex sexual behavior. The genetic variants identified are far from being predictive of same-sex sexual behavior. The study is the largest of its kind ever done.
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Health and Traits
Medical Education at 23andMe
By Eloycsia Ratliff, MPH, 23andMe Medical Education Project Manager Editor’s note: This is the first post in an occasional series explaining our Medical Education program. It is no secret that the evolving…
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Ancestry
Why 23andMe Loves Neanderthals, And You Should Too
Modern humans and Neanderthals hail from a common ancestor, and non-Africans have some fraction of Neanderthal DNA. That overlapping history explains some of the things we have in common with our ancient human cousins.
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23andMe Customer Stories
Brother Cops
Eric and Dave, who both live in Florida but had until recently never met, learned through 23andMe that they were not just brother cops, but half-brothers too.
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Common Misconceptions Healthcare Professionals have about 23andMe
By Eloycsia Ratliff, MPH, 23andMe Medical Education Project ManagerEditor’s note: This is the second in an occasional series about 23andMe’s Medical Education program.We sometimes hear misconceptions from healthcare professionals about…
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A Genetic Study Looking at the Natural Diversity of Human Sexuality
A new international study looking at same-sex sexual relations did not find a “gay gene,” but it did find thousands of genetic variants that influence same-sex sexual behavior. Across all the thousands of genetic variants found they explain somewhere between 8 and 25 percent of the variation in same-sex sexual behavior. The genetic variants identified are far from being predictive of same-sex sexual behavior. The study is the largest of its kind ever done.
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Same-Sex Sexual Behavior Partially Influenced by Genetics
A new genetic study found thousands of genetic variants associated with same-sex sexual behavior, but did not find any evidence of a so-called “gay gene.”
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Brother Cops
Eric and Dave, who both live in Florida but had until recently never met, learned through 23andMe that they were not just brother cops, but half-brothers too.
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Meet 23andMe’s Interns
By Lily Brickman, 23andMe Communications Intern23andMe’s second official internship program included 28 interns across a number of teams and in a variety of different roles.Our interns this year come from…
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Now I Know Where I Belong
Juan Fernandez had made many presentations about his Dominican heritage and the island’s Native Taíno population. But he’d never been caught off-guard by such a simple and direct question before: “Do…
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Common Misconceptions Healthcare Professionals have about 23andMe
By Eloycsia Ratliff, MPH, 23andMe Medical Education Project ManagerEditor’s note: This is the second in an occasional series about 23andMe’s Medical Education program.We sometimes hear misconceptions from healthcare professionals about…
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A Genetic Study Looking at the Natural Diversity of Human Sexuality
A new international study looking at same-sex sexual relations did not find a “gay gene,” but it did find thousands of genetic variants that influence same-sex sexual behavior. Across all the thousands of genetic variants found they explain somewhere between 8 and 25 percent of the variation in same-sex sexual behavior. The genetic variants identified are far from being predictive of same-sex sexual behavior. The study is the largest of its kind ever done.
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Same-Sex Sexual Behavior Partially Influenced by Genetics
A new genetic study found thousands of genetic variants associated with same-sex sexual behavior, but did not find any evidence of a so-called “gay gene.”
Read More
Brother Cops
Eric and Dave, who both live in Florida but had until recently never met, learned through 23andMe that they were not just brother cops, but half-brothers too.
Read More
Meet 23andMe’s Interns
By Lily Brickman, 23andMe Communications Intern23andMe’s second official internship program included 28 interns across a number of teams and in a variety of different roles.Our interns this year come from…
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Now I Know Where I Belong
Juan Fernandez had made many presentations about his Dominican heritage and the island’s Native Taíno population. But he’d never been caught off-guard by such a simple and direct question before: “Do…
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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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Risky Business
People often talk about genes as if they were directly related to specific diseases, as in “the breast cancer gene” or “the gene for alcoholism.” But the fact of the…
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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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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 in…
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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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