23andMe Research
Survey Finds 23andMe Customers Make Positive Changes to Their Health
A new survey of 23andMe’s Health + Ancestry customers conducted by M/A/R/C® Research found that more than three-quarters reported that after receiving their personalized genetic reports they made at least…
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Health and Traits
23andMe At Family Medicine Experience Conference for Healthcare Professionals
23andMe will be at a conference to offer insights on how healthcare professionals can use consumer DNA genetic health reports to improve care.
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Ancestry
23andMe’s Latest Ancestry Service Update Includes Added Diversity and New Features
The most comprehensive DNA ancestry test just got better. 23andMe’s Ancestry Service adds more regions, an automated family tree tool, and trait reports.
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23andMe Customer Stories
Jordan’s Family History
During Family History Month, it seemed right to revisit Jordan Carroll’s story.Jordan always loved his family’s stories. From a young age, he’d soak up anecdotes from relatives. Growing up in…
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Survey Finds 23andMe Customers Make Positive Changes to Their Health
A new survey of 23andMe’s Health + Ancestry customers conducted by M/A/R/C® Research found that more than three-quarters reported that after receiving their personalized genetic reports they made at least…
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Data Shows Your Gender, Diet and Age All Impact Exercise Frequency
Data from 23andMe shows that age, gender, and diet all have an impact on exercise frequency.
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First Estimates for Uniparental Disomy, a Rare Genetic Phenomenon
Research drawn from 23andMe data has for the first time allowed scientists to estimate the frequency of a very rare genetic phenomenon known as “uniparental disomy,” or UPD. In UPD the…
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Jordan’s Family History
During Family History Month, it seemed right to revisit Jordan Carroll’s story.Jordan always loved his family’s stories. From a young age, he’d soak up anecdotes from relatives. Growing up in…
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23andMe Adds a New VIP Health + Ancestry Service
23andMe just added a third purchasing option for those who want a little bit more. The new VIP Health + Ancestry Service — $499 — delivers more options for customers, including…
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Learn Something New for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we wanted to shed some light on something you might not know. Studies suggest that more than half of individuals with a cancer-related variant in…
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Survey Finds 23andMe Customers Make Positive Changes to Their Health
A new survey of 23andMe’s Health + Ancestry customers conducted by M/A/R/C® Research found that more than three-quarters reported that after receiving their personalized genetic reports they made at least…
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Data Shows Your Gender, Diet and Age All Impact Exercise Frequency
Data from 23andMe shows that age, gender, and diet all have an impact on exercise frequency.
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First Estimates for Uniparental Disomy, a Rare Genetic Phenomenon
Research drawn from 23andMe data has for the first time allowed scientists to estimate the frequency of a very rare genetic phenomenon known as “uniparental disomy,” or UPD. In UPD the…
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Jordan’s Family History
During Family History Month, it seemed right to revisit Jordan Carroll’s story.Jordan always loved his family’s stories. From a young age, he’d soak up anecdotes from relatives. Growing up in…
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23andMe Adds a New VIP Health + Ancestry Service
23andMe just added a third purchasing option for those who want a little bit more. The new VIP Health + Ancestry Service — $499 — delivers more options for customers, including…
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Learn Something New for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we wanted to shed some light on something you might not know. Studies suggest that more than half of individuals with a cancer-related variant in…
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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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