In March, seven months after his death, I had the immense honor of attending a memorial for the pioneering human geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza at the University of Pavia, Italy where he had once studied medicine.
A new national survey shows a keen interest in DNA testing primarily driven by people’s desire to know more about their potential health risks.
Recorded in front of a live audience at this year’s SXSW conference in Austin, the latest episode of Spit, an iHeartRadio podcast with 23andMe tackles one of our most significant public health challenges of our day — preventing millions of Americans from developing type 2 diabetes.
Opening up his 23andMe Ancestry Composition results for the first time, with it’s mosaic of colors representing the global regions from which his DNA originated, gave Guillaume another tangible representation of who he was and where he was from. And it opened up a door into the mysteries of his origins.
What if something inside you, something in your DNA, could lead to a cure, would you share it? Would you share it even if it didn’t help you personally?
Today 23andMe added a new report on TTR-related hereditary amyloidosis, a genetic, multi-system disease.
You have a good head on your shoulders, but your genetics might be influencing whether or not you also have a little dandruff there. While we can’t brush it off for you, 23andMe scientists have identified genetic variants associated with dandruff.
Pregnancy or rapid changes in weight can lead to stretch marks, but your genetics plays a vital role in whether you see those lines across your skin. 23andMe scientists have identified 544 genetic variants associated with stretch marks.
As pranksters prowl for marks on April Fools Day, they might want to know how their punchline will land. It turns out that genetics plays a role not just in a person’s sense of humor, but in their ability to get a joke, according to data from 23andMe.
New Parkinson’s disease research by scientists at 23andMe has identified more than 100 phenotypic variables related to the disease, offering a potential step forward in efforts to diagnose Parkinson’s disease earlier.
