Archive for the tag 'Personal Genome Service'

Apr 02 2009

23andMe Labs Kicks Off With Haplogroup Tree Mutation Mapper

Published by MattC under news

The 23andMe Personal Genome Service™ offers information about customers’ maternal and paternal ancestry by examining their mitochondrial DNA (which we all inherit from our mothers) and the Y chromosome (which is passed by fathers to their sons).
Over our species’ history new genetic variations have arisen spontaneously in those pieces of DNA, and been passed down [...]

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Oct 30 2008

Creating the Invention of the Year: A Look Behind the Scenes

Published by AlexW under inside 23andMe, news, tales of 23andMe

Editor’s Note: This week TIME Magazine is naming the 23andMe Personal Genome Service™ its Invention of the Year, an honor that the publication has previously bestowed on innovations such as the iPhone and YouTube. This post by Director of Products Alex Wong (back row, second from right) offers a glimpse at how 23andMe came to [...]

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Oct 10 2008

A New Way to View Your Data

Published by MattC under 23andMe and you

23andMe is always looking for ways not just to give our customers more data, but to help them better understand their genetic information and what it means for them. This week, we’re introducing a new way to look at Health and Traits data that does just that by pinpointing for each person the particular topics [...]

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May 14 2008

And the Winner Is …

Published by MattC under 23andMe and you

Could this be Lilly Mendel?
The judges have met and a winner has been chosen.
In the first 23andMe Win Your Genome Contest, the challenge was to describe Lilly Mendel – a real person whose data are presented in the 23andMe demo account – based on her genetic information alone. As we declared in the announcement of [...]

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Apr 01 2008

Sorry for the Delay: A Message from 23andMe Founders Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey

Published by AnneW under 23andMe and you, our founders

Linda Avey
Some customers who recently ordered our Personal Genome Service™ have had to wait more than the usual four to six weeks after spitting to get their genetic information. We know that it can be frustrating to wait when you are curious about what your genome holds, so we would like to apologize and offer [...]

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