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Having your genome sequenced means reading every 'letter' of your DNA. 23andMe, on the other hand, tests your DNA for 'SNPs' which are defined variations in hu
by Femur 17y ago
Having your genome sequenced means reading every 'letter' of your DNA. 23andMe, on the other hand, tests your DNA for 'SNPs' which are defined variations in human DNA.
A great explanation of SNPs comes from 23 and me's website: https://www.23andme.com/gen101/snps/ https://www.23andme.com/gen101/snps/
- ComputerGuru 17y agoYes, but they do give you an entire dump of your raw Genome that you can save to your PC... soon enough you'll be able to download a free program to analyze that data :D
- russss 17y agoNo, it's not an entire dump. 23andMe only decode certain bits of your DNA which are known to be interesting - they call this "genotyping" as opposed to "sequencing", which is decoding the entire genome.