Social and regular media are filled with information about all the genetic tests available and the latest genes discovered by researchers. You can’t help but wonder whether you should be tested and what the results might mean. So where do you turn?

When you have an allogeneic bone marrow or stem cell transplant, the blood-producing cells in your bone marrow are killed off by radiation or chemotherapy and then replaced with functioning cells from another person.

The number one question I get from family, friends, and colleagues is this: "Hey Brianne, which ancestry test do you recommend?"

23andMe now provides FDA-approved reports on Parkinson's disease risk, and I thought readers could benefit from a post specific to the condition. This guest post was written by my friend and former colleague, Lola Cook Shukla, who specializes in the genetics of Parkinson's disease.

and gain access to raw data files hasn’t fixed that basic issue. So, if you are going to download a raw data file from an at-home DNA test like 23andMe or AncestryDNA or a project like All of Us, here are eight key points to be aware of.

What is Raw data?

Fighting the urge to find out your APOE status from a 23andMe genetic risk report is impossible for some. Even with multiple layers of warnings a customer goes through to be able to view the report, it's easy to click boxes and breeze through to your report in less than a minute.

Jamie is a board certified and licensed genetic counselor. She provides genetic counseling to people and families with or at risk for inherited neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, prion disease, Huntington’s disease, amytrophic lateral sclerosis, and ataxia.

Meet Kim Brown Foil. Kim is a genetic counselor and an expert in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency.

A recent "news" story has gone viral, a story about a couple struggling to conceive a child whose doctor did testing and supposedly determined they were siblings, twins even, by results of genetic testing and by putting together pieces from the history of their adoptions.