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From: David Faux <>
Subject: [DNA] 23ANDme versus deCODEme
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:32:23 -0800 (PST)


Ann and List:

I am still wrestling with which company to employ in a genome scan of 1 million or so SNPs to shed light on ancestry, physical traits, medical conditions (risk assessment) and so on.

Never being one to reinvent the wheel, I will ask on the eve of my decision for some input as to whether at this point one company's offering stands out above that of the other in any of the above categories. Clearly a grand is a fair bit of coin, so the choice must be made wisely (particularly so since retirement is looming and an opportunity to fund this sort of endeavor may not come along again for a while).

Whether on-List of off-List I would very much appreciate an assessment (even very brief) of the merits of turning to one company or the other. Now that 23ANDme has a Y-chromosome component to their testing, they are very much in the game as far as I am concerned. However they seem to measure only about 2/3 the number of raw SNPs as deCODEme - which is certainly a consideration / concern.

Thanks for any help the pioneers can offer to me as I weight the blessings of each option.

David K. Faux.

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