Two Companies Now Offering Personal Gene Sequencing 146
corded writes "Yesterday, deCODE genetics announced the launch of their $985 personal genotyping product, deCODEme (video), beating their competitors to market. Perhaps not coincidentally, 23andMe's website is suddenly much more informative today, and the New York Times features a preview of 23andMe's $999 offering. deCODEme and 23andMe will scan about a million and 600,000 sites across the genome, respectively and assess your risk for common diseases, along with providing information about ancestry, physical traits, and the ability to compare genes with friends and family."
deCODE will let you dowload your results (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Gene Patents (Score:3, Informative)
as of 2005 [nationalgeographic.com]
Ohne Worte (spechless, though not quite)
CC.
Re:Something Is Missing... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Alas, my NJ overlords prevent me from using it (Score:3, Informative)
For less... (Score:3, Informative)
https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html [nationalgeographic.com]
Less money and pretty interesting. I did it myself and was pleased with the results. Very interesting indeed!
The offerings: Navigenics vs 23andMe vs deCODEme (Score:5, Informative)
23andMe: 550k SNPs + 30k custom SNPs, $999
deCODEme: >1M SNPs, $985
Navigenics: $2500, with hints at a "lock-in" model where you purchase a subscription service for continued updates as science understands more about disease:genotype correlation.
One company that was not mentioned is Knome [knome.com]. They haven't released details of their service, but instead of SNPs, they plan to offer whole genome sequencing. This is the direction that all of the above companies will head, once it's economically feasible to sequence the whole genome.
(Most of this has been summarized on my site: http://seqanswers.com [seqanswers.com])