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Some time ago I posted about National Geographics’s Genomic Project, which for $99 will allow you to have your DNA tested and find out your “deep ancestry along a single line of direct descent (paternal or maternal) and show the migration paths they followed thousands of years ago [and] place you on a particular branch of the human family tree.”
Now it seems that even better inexpensive, advanced genetic screening and analysis services are now available to the general public.
I have recently read of at least two services, 23andMe and Navigenetics that offer gene based targeted healthcare information and analysis.
23andMe describes itself as offering “personal DNA analysis and research for health, family, ancestry, and genealogy”. Their services includes:
Health and Traits: What do your genes mean for your health? Information on 90+ traits and diseases, with more added monthly.
Ancestry: Where are your ancestors from? Ancestry features trace continental origins plus parental lineage.
Compare Your DNA: How similar are you to friends and family? Tools for side-by-side comparisons, family inheritance and global similarity.
For we Quantified Self junkies this is the ultimate new desirable test but I predict within a very few years full genomic analyses will be as common as x-rays are today.
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