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Forensic Genomics Firm Othram Raises $4M
The company also said it has been awarded a research sequencing grant from Illumina Accelerator.
Parent firm Gene by Gene calls the law "brief and vague" and is pushing for ancestry testing to be exempt from the provision of the genetic privacy statute.
The value of consumer genomics services is increasing as customers seek to discover new cousins and adoptees track down their biological birth parents.
For Consumer Genomics Market, 2014 was a Year of New Features, New Players, and 'Unmatched' Sales
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Consumer genomics companies have seen their databases swell with hundreds of thousands of new samples, introduced diverse offerings, and adjusted to new competitors.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Scientists from consumer genomics firm 23andMe for the first time described the Mountain View, Calif.-based company's Ancestry Composition tool in a paper.