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Ep 30: Know Your 'Ome
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Ep 30: Know Your 'Ome

What can direct-to-consumer genetic companies tell us about our health and ancestry? How do scientists figure out which genes affect particular traits?

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On this episode of Big Biology we talk with Samantha Esselmann and Ruth Tennen, product scientists at 23andMe, about how the company uses its massive trove of data to help people learn about the genetics of their ancestry and health. We talk about the accuracy of results and what the numbers i…

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