23andMe Research
Western Wildfires Increased Asthma Attacks in 2020
By Christophe Tchakouté, 23andMe Biostatistician The number of weekly asthma attacks among people in the U.S. with active asthma increased by 10 percent in 2020 compared to the year before,…
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Health and Traits
Help Solving A Personal Medical Mystery
It started with bad sinus infections, then regular bouts of bronchitis, a seasonal cycle that gradually worsened over three decades. About ten years ago, this cycle evolved into pneumonia, putting…
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Ancestry Reports
DNA Testing Fills in Gaps for Adult Adoptees
By Brianne Kirkpatrick, MS, LCGCWhether it’s a mother finding her son, or a daughter finding her father, or brothers and sisters meeting for the first time, stories of adoptees using…
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23andMe Customer Stories
Participating for Better Equity in Research
Jordan Carroll, a social worker and patient advocate in San Diego, has a simple answer for why he’s participating in 23andMe’s Black Representation in Genetic Research study: “I was happy…
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Western Wildfires Increased Asthma Attacks in 2020
By Christophe Tchakouté, 23andMe Biostatistician The number of weekly asthma attacks among people in the U.S. with active asthma increased by 10 percent in 2020 compared to the year before,…
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Participating for Better Equity in Research
Jordan Carroll, a social worker and patient advocate in San Diego, has a simple answer for why he’s participating in 23andMe’s Black Representation in Genetic Research study: “I was happy…
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Hope, Healthcare, and Black Lives
By L. Okey Onyejekwe Jr., MD, JD, 23andMe’s Vice President of Healthcare Operations and Medical Affairs Why did we need a separate month for Black history? I’ve answered this question…
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Inspiring Others to Participate in Research
Maurice at home in Atlanta. People who know Maurice Hayes know he’s passionate about science, healthcare, and prevention. It’s personal for him. For three decades, he’s worked as an MRI…
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Black Representation in Genetic Research Study
As part of 23andMe’s ongoing effort to improve diversity in biomedical research, we recently began work on our Black Representation in Genetic Research study. This study aims to understand the…
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The New Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at 23andMe
Meet Melinda King, 23andMe’s new Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and People Business Partner.Melinda previously served as an Assistant Vice President at the University of Alabama, her alma…
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Western Wildfires Increased Asthma Attacks in 2020
By Christophe Tchakouté, 23andMe Biostatistician The number of weekly asthma attacks among people in the U.S. with active asthma increased by 10 percent in 2020 compared to the year before,…
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Participating for Better Equity in Research
Jordan Carroll, a social worker and patient advocate in San Diego, has a simple answer for why he’s participating in 23andMe’s Black Representation in Genetic Research study: “I was happy…
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Hope, Healthcare, and Black Lives
By L. Okey Onyejekwe Jr., MD, JD, 23andMe’s Vice President of Healthcare Operations and Medical Affairs Why did we need a separate month for Black history? I’ve answered this question…
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Inspiring Others to Participate in Research
Maurice at home in Atlanta. People who know Maurice Hayes know he’s passionate about science, healthcare, and prevention. It’s personal for him. For three decades, he’s worked as an MRI…
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Black Representation in Genetic Research Study
As part of 23andMe’s ongoing effort to improve diversity in biomedical research, we recently began work on our Black Representation in Genetic Research study. This study aims to understand the…
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The New Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at 23andMe
Meet Melinda King, 23andMe’s new Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and People Business Partner.Melinda previously served as an Assistant Vice President at the University of Alabama, her alma…
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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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