This week 23andMe scientists published findings from the first four months of our COVID-19 study using data from more than a million research participants that found both genetic and non-genetic associations for susceptibility and severity to COVID-19.
Preliminary data from 23andMe’s ongoing genetic study of COVID-19 appears to lend more evidence for the importance of a person’s blood type — determined by the ABO gene — in differences in the susceptibility to the virus.
Scientists around the world are racing to understand COVID-19 and the novel coronavirus that causes the disease. Could genetics play a role?
During this global health crisis, 23andMe is activating its millions of consenting research participants to help contribute to our collective understanding of the new virus that causes COVID-19. This week, 23andMe scientists began a study of COVID-19, to understand how genetics may influence the differences in severity of the disease among people.
At a meeting of the ADA Annual Conference on June 10th, 23andMe’s Senior Product Scientist, Michael Multhaup, Ph.D., will be presenting some of what we’ve learned in a presentation titled “Polygenic Risk Score Predicts Type 2 Diabetes Susceptibility in a Diverse Consumer Genetic Database.”
"Mom, I’m not the best poet and I know you know it, but here’s my rhyme, I’ll try not to blow it."
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.
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?
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.
