Which is the best dna kit in the us market

Question

[abuzarhamza]

Hi I am planning to do take dna testing kit in US. I am considering heridertry + health kit cri genetics or 23andme.

I wanted to know which kit the scientific community will prefer .

Answer 1

[Charles Warden]

I am not 100% satisfied with everything that 23andMe does, but I would tend to recommend them for people aren't able to analyze their own raw data (although they provide you with some genotypes that you can re-analyze).

There are also some free options for learning more about genomics, but I am not sure if they are the best fit for you:

1) Genes for Good - free SNP chip data with limited interpretation from the University of Michigan

2) All of Us - a program sponsored by the NIH. If selected for Biospecimen collection, you get a free gift card. However, everybody isn't selected for free sequencing (for example, I don't have any of that sequencing data)

In terms of seeing some specific things that I thought were interesting and/or I had concerns about, you can see a collection of blog posts (for human genomics) here:

http://cdwscience.blogspot.com/2019/08/updated-thoughs-on-my-genomics-results.html

While messier, I also have the following data / notes publicly available:

https://my.pgp-hms.org/profile/hu832966

https://github.com/cwarden45/DTC_Scripts