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New Vietnamese Genetic Groups
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (252+ words) Vietnam's geography has long shaped its people. The country stretches more than 1, 000 miles along the eastern edge of Southeast Asia, threading through highlands, river valleys and two great deltas. For centuries, those landscapes have channeled migration, trade and family ties,…...
Ancient DNA and 23and Me Are Rewriting the Story of Some of America's Earliest Colonists
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (397+ words) Researchers extracted ancient DNA from the bones of individuals buried at the site, then used an identity-by-descent approach to find genetic matches among living 23and Me customers who consented to research. More than 1. 3 million consented research participants share DNA with one…...
The Genetics of Asthma and Allergies: More Than a Decade of 23and Me Research
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (231+ words) Digging more into age of onset, a 2019 analysis using UK Biobank data, and then replicated with 23and Me data, found that around 30% of the genetic variants associated with asthma were shared between childhood-onset and adult-onset asthma, but most genetic variants were…...
More Than Skin Deep: What DNA Can Reveal About Skin Cancer Risk
1+ week, 3+ day ago (503+ words) Here's a sobering number to sit with: roughly one in five Americans will develop some form of skin cancer by age 70, making it the most common cancer in the United States. May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, a good moment…...
Parkinson's Awareness Month: Genetics, Awareness, and Research
3+ week, 3+ day ago (306+ words) By Matthew J. Kmiecik, Ph. D. April is Parkinson's Awareness Month, a time dedicated to increasing education about the condition and highlighting the incredible progress being made in research. At the 23and Me Research Institute, this month holds a special significance. Since 2009, we…...
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Genetics of a Global Crossroads: A Deep Dive into Saint Helena's Ancestry
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (196+ words) By "adaoin Harney, Ph. D. , and Steven Micheletti, Ph. D. Located 1, 200 miles from the coast of Africa, Saint Helena is perhaps best known as the final place of exile for Napoleon Bonaparte. However, the island's genetic story is much more complex than…...
A Window into Genetic History
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (224+ words) By "adaoin Harney, Ph. D. But thanks to ancient DNA technology, a team of researchers from the Natural History Museum and University College London was finally able to tell their story in a genetic study published in the journal Current Biology…...