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Re:23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M g... by travisp on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @01:37PM (#4905955)
23andMe works by testing only a subset of all genetic SNPs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-nucleotide_polymorphism ). It's not full DNA sequencing. The newer DNA microarrays contain a greater number of SNPs that they test for.
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