23andMe Research
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Impact of COVID-19
Blacks and Latinos are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, according to new data from scientists at 23andMe, illustrating the racial disparities in the impact of the virus.
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Health and Traits
23andMe Offers a New Report on APOL1-Related Chronic Kidney Disease
23andMe added a new Genetic Health Risk report on APOL1-related chronic kidney disease that has particular relevance for customers with African ancestry.
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Ancestry Reports
Celebrate your Ancient DNA with a New Neanderthal Report
23andMe customers can celebrate their ancient DNA with a New Neanderthal Report, where they’ll find new trait associations, and new features to share their results.
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23andMe Customer Stories
A Gift of Knowledge
Ann, a genetics professor, used 23andMe to find her mother’s sister. But 23andMe also offered a gift of knowledge with insight into her ancestry and health.
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Impact of COVID-19
Blacks and Latinos are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, according to new data from scientists at 23andMe, illustrating the racial disparities in the impact of the virus.
Read More
23andMe Offers a New Report on APOL1-Related Chronic Kidney Disease
23andMe added a new Genetic Health Risk report on APOL1-related chronic kidney disease that has particular relevance for customers with African ancestry.
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23andMe and GSK Begin First Clinical Trial with Cancer Therapy
A drug to fight cancer will be the first potential therapy to emerge from 23andMe and GlaxoSmithKline collaboration as the two companies announced that the new therapy will begin clinical trials.
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Introducing L. Okey Onyejekwe Jr.
We sit down for a chat with L. Okey Onyejekwe Jr., 23andMe’s new vice president of Consumer Clinical Operations & Medical Affairs.
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23andMe Paper on Transatlantic Slave Trade Published
Published today in the American Journal of Human Genetics, a paper by 23andMe scientists using genetic data offers one of the most comprehensive investigations of the transatlantic slave trade ever done.
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A Gift of Knowledge
Ann, a genetics professor, used 23andMe to find her mother’s sister. But 23andMe also offered a gift of knowledge with insight into her ancestry and health.
Read More
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Impact of COVID-19
Blacks and Latinos are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, according to new data from scientists at 23andMe, illustrating the racial disparities in the impact of the virus.
Read More
23andMe Offers a New Report on APOL1-Related Chronic Kidney Disease
23andMe added a new Genetic Health Risk report on APOL1-related chronic kidney disease that has particular relevance for customers with African ancestry.
Read More
23andMe and GSK Begin First Clinical Trial with Cancer Therapy
A drug to fight cancer will be the first potential therapy to emerge from 23andMe and GlaxoSmithKline collaboration as the two companies announced that the new therapy will begin clinical trials.
Read More
Introducing L. Okey Onyejekwe Jr.
We sit down for a chat with L. Okey Onyejekwe Jr., 23andMe’s new vice president of Consumer Clinical Operations & Medical Affairs.
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23andMe Paper on Transatlantic Slave Trade Published
Published today in the American Journal of Human Genetics, a paper by 23andMe scientists using genetic data offers one of the most comprehensive investigations of the transatlantic slave trade ever done.
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A Gift of Knowledge
Ann, a genetics professor, used 23andMe to find her mother’s sister. But 23andMe also offered a gift of knowledge with insight into her ancestry and health.
Read More
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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