23andMe Research
Helping to Drive Discovery in 23andMe’s Therapeutics Division
Xin Fang’s interest in science started at the dinner table, listening to her parents talking about what they did each day. Both her mom and dad are plant scientists. Her mom…
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Health and Traits
Taking Control for a Healthier Pregnancy
23andMe released a new 23andMe+ report on gestational diabetes report, which affects an estimated 6 to 9 percent of those expecting. The report looks at a person’s ethnicity and more than 6,000 genetic variants associated with developing gestational diabetes mellitus, commonly known as gestational diabetes, during pregnancy.
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Ancestry Reports
A new analysis sheds light on some customers’ Indigenous genetic ancestry from North America
23andMe added eight new regions within North America reflecting Indigenous genetic ancestry. The addition is in response not just to requests from thousands of customers, but also as part of…
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23andMe Customer Stories
23andMe Offers Revelations for Adoptee Searching for His Siblings
Adoptee and filmmaker Aaron Harris used 23andMe to help him learn more about himself, and his connections to his birth family.
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Helping to Drive Discovery in 23andMe’s Therapeutics Division
Xin Fang’s interest in science started at the dinner table, listening to her parents talking about what they did each day. Both her mom and dad are plant scientists. Her mom…
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23andMe Offers Revelations for Adoptee Searching for His Siblings
Adoptee and filmmaker Aaron Harris used 23andMe to help him learn more about himself, and his connections to his birth family.
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Taking Control for a Healthier Pregnancy
23andMe released a new 23andMe+ report on gestational diabetes report, which affects an estimated 6 to 9 percent of those expecting. The report looks at a person’s ethnicity and more than 6,000 genetic variants associated with developing gestational diabetes mellitus, commonly known as gestational diabetes, during pregnancy.
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Talking About Rare Disease with Senior Scientist Suyash Shringarpure
23andMe senior scientist in statistical genetics, Suyash Shringarpure, Ph.D. talks about 23andMe’s research model and how it offers a surprising opportunity in the study of rare diseases.
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Raising Awareness About Fatty Liver Disease
Wayne Eskridge CEO of the Fatty Liver Foundation wants to raise awareness about fatty liver disease, and help people make changes toward better health.
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Making 23andMe More Inclusive for All Genders
23andMe now allows customers to distinguish between their sex assigned at birth and their gender. This allows all customers, but especially our transgender and/or non-binary customers, to have their gender accurately reflected in relevant product features.
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Helping to Drive Discovery in 23andMe’s Therapeutics Division
Xin Fang’s interest in science started at the dinner table, listening to her parents talking about what they did each day. Both her mom and dad are plant scientists. Her mom…
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23andMe Offers Revelations for Adoptee Searching for His Siblings
Adoptee and filmmaker Aaron Harris used 23andMe to help him learn more about himself, and his connections to his birth family.
Read More
Taking Control for a Healthier Pregnancy
23andMe released a new 23andMe+ report on gestational diabetes report, which affects an estimated 6 to 9 percent of those expecting. The report looks at a person’s ethnicity and more than 6,000 genetic variants associated with developing gestational diabetes mellitus, commonly known as gestational diabetes, during pregnancy.
Read More
Talking About Rare Disease with Senior Scientist Suyash Shringarpure
23andMe senior scientist in statistical genetics, Suyash Shringarpure, Ph.D. talks about 23andMe’s research model and how it offers a surprising opportunity in the study of rare diseases.
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Raising Awareness About Fatty Liver Disease
Wayne Eskridge CEO of the Fatty Liver Foundation wants to raise awareness about fatty liver disease, and help people make changes toward better health.
Read More
Making 23andMe More Inclusive for All Genders
23andMe now allows customers to distinguish between their sex assigned at birth and their gender. This allows all customers, but especially our transgender and/or non-binary customers, to have their gender accurately reflected in relevant product features.
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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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