23andMe Research

Although there remains no cure and only limited treatments for symptoms, there’s a bit of good news to report this year during World Alzheimer’s Month.  A handful of changes to...

A new international study looking at same-sex sexual relations did not find a "gay gene," but it did find thousands of genetic variants that influence same-sex sexual behavior. Across all the thousands of genetic variants found they explain somewhere between 8 and 25 percent of the variation in same-sex sexual behavior. The genetic variants identified are far from being predictive of same-sex sexual behavior. The study is the largest of its kind ever done.

A new genetic study found thousands of genetic variants associated with same-sex sexual behavior, but did not find any evidence of a so-called "gay gene."

23andMe investigate how dietary habits, along with genetics, demographics, lifestyle and other data can influence overall health outcomes.

Johns Hopkins University statistical geneticist, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Ph.D., a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, to help us at 23andMe put into context the work being done around the world on polygenic risk modeling.

23andMe’s Senior Product Scientist, Michael Multhaup, Ph.D., will offer up some of what we’ve learned in a presentation at the American Diabetes Association conference titled “Polygenic Risk Score Predicts Type 2 Diabetes Susceptibility in a Diverse Consumer Genetic Database.”

Formally launched last year as one of several initiatives to expand diversity in genetics research, 23andMe’s Populations Collaborations Program supports researchers working with understudied populations from locations as wide-ranging as...

A poem for mom from us here at 23andMe as we get nearer to Mother's Day, highlighting just a few of the many traits we inherited from her.

23andMe's senior director for research, Joanna Mountain, memorializes the pioneering human geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, who passed away last year. Luca, as he was known to his friends, helped lay the groundwork for using genetics to study human migration and population genetics.

23andMe research participant Tony Garrett gives his perspective on why he is participating in research and his hopes for the future.