At the end of March another California company announced they have a DNA test for consumers. Biomarker offers what they call Gene Essence, The test is done with the Affymetrix SNP chip. For $1195 the company will provide your genotype at >900,000 SNPs. The website is not very impressive, showing what seems to be a rather minimalist report, in addition there were numerous typos explaining the report. I don’t think this latest testing company will be much competition for 23andMe and deCODEme.
April 14, 2008