23andMe Launches New Feature Connecting Customers to Historical Individuals from Hundreds and Even Thousands of Years Ago
"23andMe's Historical Matches is a technical breakthrough in our ability to accurately detect genetic connections between customers and historical individuals."
- "23andMe's Historical Matches is a technical breakthrough in our ability to accurately detect genetic connections between customers and historical individuals."
- The new Historical Matches feature leverages the same science applied in a more consumer-friendly and approachable way to making these connections.
- To create this new feature and connect members to Historical Matches, 23andMe identifies segments of DNA that individuals share with the genetic sequences of historical individuals.
- The feature relies on publicly available data, scientific publications, and the 23andMe relative matching technology to link to these historical individuals.