Genetic ancestry tools traced the inherited EGFR T790M lung cancer risk variant to a founder event among settlers of Southern Appalachia around 1800. People with ancestry from the Southern United ...

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This update is currently available to all eligible customers on the latest, V5, genotyping chip. The 23andMe Ancestry Team has been working hard on a major update to the Ancestry Composition report, ...

23andMe has added 137 new Genetic Groups across Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia and Madagascar, our most detailed ancestry breakdown of this part of the world to date. The new ...

Since 2019, 23andMe customers have had the option to utilize authenticator app 2-factor authentication, which adds an extra layer of security to their account. Starting today, we are requiring all ...

Five thousand. That is how many geographic regions, ethnolinguistic groups and cultural communities 23andMe can now connect you to. We reached that milestone today with the release of 163 new Genetic ...

Are you distantly related to the legendary, like the great musical genius Ludwig Van Beethoven? Perhaps you are genetically related to a high-status Viking woman from the 9th century who was buried in ...

This policy, together with the 23andMe Privacy Statement, includes the information and disclosures we are required to provide to you under U.S. State Data Protection ...

This week researchers at 23andMe, Harvard, and the Smithsonian published a study in the journal Science featuring DNA from 27 individuals of African descent buried in a cemetery at Maryland’s Catoctin ...

When 23andMe scientists added a “Filipino” population to our Ancestry Composition report two years ago, customers were excited to see their Filipino ancestry reflected in their results for the first ...

For nearly all its existence, America has not only been a multiracial nation but a nation of mixed-race people. The truth is rarely acknowledged despite the evidence being easy to find. In the ...

History is written in our DNA, and like our DNA, our history is often complicated. Over the last several years, 23andMe scientists have explored what our genetics can reveal about the people of the ...