Many people are aware of the concept that their blood group influences their interaction with the environment: intestinal secretions of blood group antigens affect a person’s interaction with foods through being a marker of self recognised by the immune system. Similar to the way that a transfusion of blood from […]
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Decoding 23andMe ‘i’ Numbers
23andMe currently reports over 600,000 SNPs in the genome explorer, which are analyzed by their custom 2014 v4 chip. The process used is genotyping, rather than sequencing. The former is cheaper and quicker, and targets specific parts of the genome that are known to have variants in some or many people; the latter […]