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When ancestry tests reveal more than genetics

by David Brancaccio , Lee Hawkins and Alex Schroeder
Jul 9, 2024
Special correspondent Lee Hawkins shares his experience finding new family with online genetics tests — and reconciling fraught history.
"The truth is, we can't really change the past, but we can affect the present and the future," says Lee Hawkins, who learned from a genetics test that nearly a fifth of his DNA is from Wales.
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Who owns the results of genetic testing?

by Molly Wood
Oct 16, 2018
Personal data from genetic tests has been used in drug development and research.
A visitor views a digital representation of the human genome in 2001 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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Who owns the results of genetic testing?

by Molly Wood
Oct 16, 2018
Personal data from genetic tests has been used in drug development and research.
A visitor views a digital representation of the human genome in 2001 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Mario Tama/Getty Images
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Not white? Ancestry services don't work so well. Companies are looking for fixes.

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
May 25, 2018
More people of color need to take DNA tests to improve the results, but people of color won't buy kits if they don't provide worthwhile information.
Ancestry.com can reveal DNA information from 289 regions in Europe and four regions in Asia.
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Why 23andMe wants your genetic data

by Kai Ryssdal and Robert Garrova
Apr 19, 2017
CEO Anne Wojcicki hopes the collective power of health information will advance research.
"In some ways the world is just starting, but in some ways I think we've really driven a lot of change," said 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki.
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FDA clears 23andMe to sell genetics tests for diseases

by Adam Allington
Apr 10, 2017
Consumers can get information to help them determine if they are at risk of developing Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other diseases.
Anne Wojcicki is co-founder and CEO of 23andMe, a company that makes home DNA testing kits.
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Our most immutable material

by Molly Wood
Mar 16, 2016
23andMe’s Kate Black on protecting genetic data.
23andMe provides genetics testing to customers. 
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23andMe is jumping back into the market

by Mitchell Hartman
Oct 21, 2015
The company will offer tests to determine if people are carriers relatively rare diseases.
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FDA orders 23andMe to stop selling DNA test kits

by Adriene Hill
Nov 26, 2013
The problem with mail-order DNA tests.
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Spit, genes and the FDA

by Lizzie O'Leary
Nov 25, 2013
The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on the nation's biggest at-home DNA test kit company
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