23andMe

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23andMe Research Institute is an American personal genomics and biotechnology nonprofit public benefit company based in Palo Alto, California. It provides a direct-to-consumer genetic testing service in which customers submit a saliva sample that is laboratory analysed using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping to generate reports on the customer's ancestry and genetic predispositions to health-related conditions. The company's name is derived from the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a diploid human cell. Founded in 2006, 23andMe was the first company to offer autosomal DNA testing for ancestry, an approach now used across the industry. Its saliva-based genetic testing service was named "Invention of the Year" by Time in 2008. The company had an early confrontational relationship with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over its health-related tests, which were suspended in the US from late 2013 until October 2015, when the FDA began granting approvals for specific carrier status...

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