23andMe
Initiatives
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Commercial offering to analyze customers’ DNA from a spit sample for a hundred+ dollars, focus on using its data set for scientific and medical research.
- Start Year
- 2006
- Supplementary Information
- International HundredK+ Cohorts Consortium (IHCC) (66)
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
Marker Paper
Stoeklé, H. C., Mamzer-Bruneel, M. F., Vogt, G., & Hervé, C. (2016). 23andMe: a new two-sided data-banking market model. BMC medical ethics, 17, 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-016-0101-9
PUBMED 27059184
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 2,000,000
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- People from all over the world. > 2,000,000
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://www.23andme.com/en-int/dna-ancestry/