Users pay 100 to the Silicon Valley company 23andme for a breakdown of their ancestryALAMY<\/p>\n
The ancestry company 23andme has become the worlds first genetics testing firm to create a drug created from its customers DNA samples.<\/p>\n
The Silicon Valley company has developed and sold a drug designed to treat inflammatory diseases such as psoriasis. It is based on its database of around 10 million DNA samples it has collected since it was founded in 2006.<\/p>\n
23andme has sold the rights to the drug to the Spanish pharmaceutical company Almirall for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n
The companys chief executive is Anne Wojcicki, whose sister, Susan, is the chief executive of YouTube and whose ex-husband Sergey Brin is the co-founder of Google.<\/p>\n
It is one of several genetics companies that offers home testing kits which allow people to get a breakdown of<\/p>\n
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