snowathlete
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Hi everyone,
I recently paid some genetic tests with a company called 23andme. They have links with google, and seem to be the market leader for personal genetic testing.
Basically, you send off a cheek swab and they test it and give you a million SNPs of something like that.
Some genetic traits are known about for a variety of things through traditional genetic testing, ranging from identification of disease such as Huntingdon's, through to whether you cant absorb a certain mineral very easily. But in addition 23andme are looking to collecting data via asking questions (surveys on their website) and identifying paterns in their database to help spot genetic traits associated with certain illnesses etc.
I think what you get for the money is pretty good From the looks of things at least - iI'm waiting on my results to come in at the moment, but has anyone tested with this company, or anyone else?
What do we know (if anything) about ME and genetic markers? Relevant mineral/drug interactions etc? Is there anything?
I recently paid some genetic tests with a company called 23andme. They have links with google, and seem to be the market leader for personal genetic testing.
Basically, you send off a cheek swab and they test it and give you a million SNPs of something like that.
Some genetic traits are known about for a variety of things through traditional genetic testing, ranging from identification of disease such as Huntingdon's, through to whether you cant absorb a certain mineral very easily. But in addition 23andme are looking to collecting data via asking questions (surveys on their website) and identifying paterns in their database to help spot genetic traits associated with certain illnesses etc.
I think what you get for the money is pretty good From the looks of things at least - iI'm waiting on my results to come in at the moment, but has anyone tested with this company, or anyone else?
What do we know (if anything) about ME and genetic markers? Relevant mineral/drug interactions etc? Is there anything?