Google's Calico Partners with Ancestry.com to Access Genetic Database

Calico, a longevity company backed by Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL), has partnered with Ancestry.com (NASDAQ:ACOM) to access more than 1 million DNA samples from the company.
According to the Bloomberg Business article:

AncestryDNA, a division of the Provo, Utah-based genealogy company, has gathered more than 1 million DNA samples from the $99 testing kits it sells to consumers to help map their family history. Beside the genetic information, Calico will have access to tens of millions of public family trees created by consumers, which include birth and death dates, relationships, and geographical locations.
Health companies are mining the growing amounts of digital information on people’s genetic codes to hunt for clues about how diseases develop — and how they might be cured or prevented. Databases are growing as costs fall as low as $1,000 to sequence a whole genome, while selective genotyping is even cheaper.

 
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