
23andMe Research
Anxiety and Depression Raise the Risk for Long COVID
A new 23andMe study found that a history of depression or anxiety was associated with more than a two-fold increase in the risk of being diagnosed with Long COVID. The study, among the largest done to date on long COVID, also found the women were more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with long COVID, and that being vaccinated has a a modest impact on resolving symptoms for about 20 percent of those with long COVID but has no effect for about half of those with the condition.
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Health and Traits
New 23andMe+ Report on Psoriasis
This week, we released a new report powered by 23andMe Research on Psoriasis for 23andMe+ Members. The autoimmune condition is characterized by discolored, itchy, and scaly patches of skin often…
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Ancestry Reports
Tracing Roots in Africa
An update of 23andMe’s Ancestry Composition, that includes 25 new ethnolinguistic groups in Africa ,is helping customers like Jamila to learn about cultures and groups with whom she and her family are connected.
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23andMe Customer Stories
A Family Gets Healthy, with Some Help from Mom
Corie Allessie, a retired dental assistant and former Navy jet mechanic, has a few essential rules for healthy living. Never, ever eat in front of the television. Get up and…
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Anxiety and Depression Raise the Risk for Long COVID
A new 23andMe study found that a history of depression or anxiety was associated with more than a two-fold increase in the risk of being diagnosed with Long COVID. The study, among the largest done to date on long COVID, also found the women were more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with long COVID, and that being vaccinated has a a modest impact on resolving symptoms for about 20 percent of those with long COVID but has no effect for about half of those with the condition.
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New 23andMe+ Report on Psoriasis
This week, we released a new report powered by 23andMe Research on Psoriasis for 23andMe+ Members. The autoimmune condition is characterized by discolored, itchy, and scaly patches of skin often…
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Customers at the Heart of First 23andYou Community Conference
Growing up, Angel Rich, whose father was adopted, always believed she was Dominican. She was raised in a household that spoke Spanish – she even minored in the language in…
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A Family Gets Healthy, with Some Help from Mom
Corie Allessie, a retired dental assistant and former Navy jet mechanic, has a few essential rules for healthy living. Never, ever eat in front of the television. Get up and…
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Postdoc Opportunities at 23andMe
If you’re a recent Ph.D. graduate interested in opportunities to work with genetic data in the search for new insights into human disease and new treatments for those conditions, then…
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A Mother’s Vision
For Mother’s Day this year we want to highlight Lisa, a public health nurse with a background in genetics, who shared what she learned using 23andMe as part of a…
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Anxiety and Depression Raise the Risk for Long COVID
A new 23andMe study found that a history of depression or anxiety was associated with more than a two-fold increase in the risk of being diagnosed with Long COVID. The study, among the largest done to date on long COVID, also found the women were more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with long COVID, and that being vaccinated has a a modest impact on resolving symptoms for about 20 percent of those with long COVID but has no effect for about half of those with the condition.
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New 23andMe+ Report on Psoriasis
This week, we released a new report powered by 23andMe Research on Psoriasis for 23andMe+ Members. The autoimmune condition is characterized by discolored, itchy, and scaly patches of skin often…
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Customers at the Heart of First 23andYou Community Conference
Growing up, Angel Rich, whose father was adopted, always believed she was Dominican. She was raised in a household that spoke Spanish – she even minored in the language in…
Read More
A Family Gets Healthy, with Some Help from Mom
Corie Allessie, a retired dental assistant and former Navy jet mechanic, has a few essential rules for healthy living. Never, ever eat in front of the television. Get up and…
Read More
Postdoc Opportunities at 23andMe
If you’re a recent Ph.D. graduate interested in opportunities to work with genetic data in the search for new insights into human disease and new treatments for those conditions, then…
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A Mother’s Vision
For Mother’s Day this year we want to highlight Lisa, a public health nurse with a background in genetics, who shared what she learned using 23andMe as part of a…
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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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