23andMe Research
23andMe Engages Its Millions of Research Participants to Study COVID-19
23andMe scientists began a study of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, to understand how genetics may influence the differences in severity of the disease among people.
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Health and Traits
Raising Awareness
As we celebrate Black History Month, we want to raise awareness about some of the conditions 23andMe reports on that are more common in people of African descent. Sickle Cell…
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Ancestry
23andMe’s Take on Irish Trivia
For St. Patrick’s Day 23andMe looks at Irish ancestry, where in Ireland customers Irish ancestors lived, and where in the United States customers with recent Irish ancestry live.
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23andMe Customer Stories
23andMe Connection Offers Clues to a 75-year-old Mystery
23andMe opened up a 75-year-old mystery for three sisters, connecting them to their biological uncle and revealing that their father may have been kidnapped as a very young boy and raised by strangers, never knowing the truth of his origins.
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23andMe Engages Its Millions of Research Participants to Study COVID-19
23andMe scientists began a study of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, to understand how genetics may influence the differences in severity of the disease among people.
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23andMe’s Parkinson’s Research Community, More than a Decade of Discovery
As part of Parkinson’s Awareness month, 23andME looks back over the now 11 years since we formed the Parkinson’s Research Community and note some of what we’ve accomplished.
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New genetic associations for nearsightedness
A new study found previously unknown genetic mechanisms for myopia, or nearsightedness, including associations with circadian rhythms, as well as skin, eye and hair pigmentation.
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Study Finds Health Impact for Early Puberty in Boys
Early puberty in boys is associated with shorter lifespans, according to a new genetic study by researchers at the University of Cambridge.
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New Genetic Research on Skin Cancer
A large new study led by researchers at the University of Indiana that included data from 23andMe has found new genetic associations for squamous cell skin cancers.
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23andMe’s Take on Irish Trivia
For St. Patrick’s Day 23andMe looks at Irish ancestry, where in Ireland customers Irish ancestors lived, and where in the United States customers with recent Irish ancestry live.
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23andMe Engages Its Millions of Research Participants to Study COVID-19
23andMe scientists began a study of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, to understand how genetics may influence the differences in severity of the disease among people.
Read More
23andMe’s Parkinson’s Research Community, More than a Decade of Discovery
As part of Parkinson’s Awareness month, 23andME looks back over the now 11 years since we formed the Parkinson’s Research Community and note some of what we’ve accomplished.
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New genetic associations for nearsightedness
A new study found previously unknown genetic mechanisms for myopia, or nearsightedness, including associations with circadian rhythms, as well as skin, eye and hair pigmentation.
Read More
Study Finds Health Impact for Early Puberty in Boys
Early puberty in boys is associated with shorter lifespans, according to a new genetic study by researchers at the University of Cambridge.
Read More
New Genetic Research on Skin Cancer
A large new study led by researchers at the University of Indiana that included data from 23andMe has found new genetic associations for squamous cell skin cancers.
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23andMe’s Take on Irish Trivia
For St. Patrick’s Day 23andMe looks at Irish ancestry, where in Ireland customers Irish ancestors lived, and where in the United States customers with recent Irish ancestry live.
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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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