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23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal ...
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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