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Linda Avey is the Co-Founder of 23andMe, a company which enables people to access and understand their own personal genetic information. Basically they are using the curiosity of a human being to find out
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more about themselves, but want to help them at the same time. As they describe it:
23andMe, Inc. is the leading personal genetics company dedicated to helping individuals understand their own genetic information through DNA analysis technologies and web-based interactive tools.
We talk about
what kind of information you get back and how to use it
how many samples they have in their database and how they use it
privacy and security of the data
what they hope to track / research and share with others
from anchestry up to "how much does coffee work on me?"
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