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More than a million Americans have Parkinson’s disease, and another 50,000 are diagnosed each year. There is active research to try to understand this devastating condition, but scientists still don’t ...
Sandra

Sandra Please explain why individuals of African descent have markers that appear to be Asian that really are not? When your ancestry results indicate that an individual with substantial African ancestry has Asian ancestry, how reliable are those results?

Fri at 7:08pm · Report
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Here's the response from our scientist who developed the algorithm underlying ancestry painting: "There's no case that I've seen where 9% Asian ancestry does not indicate genuine East Asian or Native American ancestry. I've looked at order thousands of individuals of known ancestry, that approximately cover the gamut of human diversity. Thus I ... See Morewould regard 9% as a reliable indication of East Asian or Native American ancestry." That said, 9% is close to the threshold above which the following statement can be made, so it is still theoretically possible, albeit very unlikely, that the prediction is not true.
Yesterday at 4:34pm
Sandra
Sandra
Thank you. That is very helpful information. I feel more comfortable accepting the results as reliable. I took a DNA Print test in 2006 that indicated no Asian/Native American ancestry. Maybe their test wasn't as sophisticated as yours. What is the value of the "threshold" that you indicated 9percent was close to?
Yesterday at 4:41pm
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23andMe Genomics Law Report presents a collection of guest posts in its "What ELSI is New?" series as an e-Book : http://bit.ly/7xIU45

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23andMe Another excellent post from @Vick.Family.History for those interested in genetic genealogy.

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We have about 50 men and women who have tested at 23andMe through our Vick and Allied Families DNA Project. 23andMe tests single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from all 23 pairs of our chromosomes and our mitochondrial DNA. ...
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23andMe A fairly technical primer on modern sequencing technologies. Enjoy!

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DNA Sequencing Forges Ahead. Next-generation technologies lowercostofgenome sequencing.
Sachin Sawrikar

Sachin Sawrikar Is it possible for 23 and me to send an email to all users about relative finder. I have found 3 of them but not able to connect as they have not opted for it

December 13 at 9:45am · Report
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23andMe
We have sent an email to all our genotyped users when Relative Finder launched. We are also working on adding ability to contact people who have not opted in, look for it to be available some time in January.
December 13 at 4:05pm
Sachin Sawrikar
Sachin Sawrikar
That would be good. I never got any email from you regarding the relative finder. The only email i got was when you announced the Health edition and the Ancestry edition.
December 14 at 10:58am
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23andMe
Apologies - the info above is wrong. We will send out an email to all our users about Relative Finder in January, coinciding with the feature update.
December 14 at 3:35pm
Shoshone Peguese

Shoshone Peguese Hello,

New here. I am in the process of ordering the 23andme test. I am a genetic genealogical consultant and have been researching my ancestry for over 20 years. I have taken several comparable DNA test. I am of Native American Indian/ Mixed ancestry. I belong to Maternal Native american Haplogroup A (which I know your... test will also show). I also have black and white ancestry. I have documented most of my families history. Your test seems to be one of the most advanced. When I take it I will compare it with my other test results, and family history to see how acurate it is. I will make my final report and conclusion in recommending to others. Also want to see if I have any relatives out there.

Thanks.

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December 13 at 9:17am · Report
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23andMe
Welcome to the service! We hope you will find our test useful and educational, it's certainly a treasure trove of genetic genealogy data. If you end up writing up your experience, please share it with us!
December 13 at 4:04pm
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23andMe An excellent in-depth post explaining how one family uses 23andMe tools to trace their family history: http://bit.ly/709whr

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In our VICK and Allied Families DNA Project at 23andMe our DNA helps us learn about more than just our Vick ancestry. 23andMe offers us the opportunity to use a suite of tools to explore our connections ...
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23andMe Musings on the future of P4 medicine by Dr Gaurav Chandra. Amazing how fast the field is transforming. http://bit.ly/70dcjR

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The evolution of medicine traced from the nascent humble beginning in the ancient period to the modern day nano-medicine and beyond.
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23andMe 10 Gift Ideas for Web Geeks: http://bit.ly/7B6eFc We were labeled "The ultimate in unusual internet shopping". Neat.

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With Christmas approaching you might be looking for the perfect gift for the web geek in your life. Maybe you are that web geek and just want inspiration for your list of requests?
James Larry Vick
James Larry Vick
I bet a webinar about Relative Finder would drive sales and get more people who have 23andMe results to use it. If you attached a discount for participants the word would spread quickly.

If you show the advantage to testing multiple family members you would also show the value of your multi kit discount.
December 11 at 11:04am
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23andMe
Great idea, I passed it along. By the way, you may be pleased to know that your recent blog post that we put out on twitter yesterday quickly became one of our most popular links (91 clicks). Thank you!
December 11 at 1:20pm
James Larry Vick
James Larry Vick
Thank you for the great work 23andMe does for genetic genealogy.
December 11 at 1:22pm
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23andMe A segment showing two distant cousins who met through 23andMe from Campbell Brown's show on CNN

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DNA testing has become wildly popular over the past few years. Just trying googling "DNA kit" you'll get something like 15-million hits. All that testing is revealing some big surprises ancestors you never knew you had even thousands of cousins. Our Deborah Feyerick has more.
Mark Jensen
Mark Jensen
Larry Vick is very active on 23andme's forums and elsewhere on the internet.
December 3 at 3:29pm
Paul

Paul For those of us who were not online over most of the holiday weekend, any chance of extending the Black Friday pricing through cyber Monday?

November 29 at 11:58am · Report
Nelson
Nelson
In addition to Paul Wrights comment there are other DNA services out here, why is yours better? do you have a comparison chart? thank you.
December 3 at 12:59am
Julia
Julia
Quit spewing venom over 23andme! It's all about what it's worth - to me it's been worth every cent!! Thanks 23andme, you're awesome - keep up the good work!!
December 8 at 12:50pm
Lydia

Lydia Thank you for adding all the new carrier status info last week

November 28 at 5:04pm · Report
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23andMe
You are welcome! We are always working on adding more actionable reports - drug response, carrier status, etc.
November 29 at 6:59pm
Dirk

Dirk I've updated my DNA talk (9.1 MB):

http://dirkschweitzer.net/GeneticGenealogy-DS.pdf

Feel free to share it with family and friends to encourage them to join our hobby. :)

November 28 at 1:51pm · Report
Dirk
November 29 at 7:27pm
Dirk
Dirk
Thanks 23andMe :)
November 29 at 8:05pm
Flavia Mosci

Flavia Mosci I have taken the test in the past and I was wondering if 23 and me can tell me my blood type through the results... I was a little bit confused when I was reading it; I think it said non abo but I am not sure..

November 26 at 10:03pm · Report
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23andMe
Take a look a the ABO Blood Type Lab in the Health Labs section, it may be what you are looking for.
November 27 at 9:58am
Flavia Mosci
Flavia Mosci
I think it was non-abo..
November 27 at 10:02am