23AndMe.com - Find Out What You Are Made Of

All of us—that is every human being-- has 23 pairs of chromosomes. Those chromosomes tell us how we will develop, whether we’ll be left or right handed, whether we’ll become bald or have attached earlobes, whether we’ll get cancer, they’ll even tell us where we came from, who are ancestors were, where they lived—it’s all in the genes.

Now with 23andMe you can get a whole write up of how your genes function—your potential for developing various conditions along with traits such as athletic ability, how your grandmother’s intolerance for lactose was passed through your mother, how your ancestors came from South Africa. All of this you can find out by sending out a drop of saliva and $1000 bucks to 23andMe. Oprah did it, and now you can too. Results usually come within 4-6 weeks. The site also has some nifty facts about genes , variations, the royal disease, and you’ll find out if Warren and Jimmy Buffet are related. Pretty cool stuff, even if you don’t have a grand to put down check out the site’s repository of factoids.