Linda Avey, co-founder of 23andMe, the personal genetics start-up, will be leaving to start a foundation related to Alzheimer’s disease.

With Anne Wojcicki, she founded the high-profile company–whose Series A investors include Genentech, Google, and New Enterprise Associates, as well as Wojcicki’s husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin–in 2006.

Avey noted in an email to staff, which is posted in its entirety below: “I also recognize that the company has reached a critical point in its growth where new leadership can take it to the successful heights we all think it can achieve.”

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So I paid a visit a few weeks ago to the new offices of 23andMe, a start-up that has gotten a lot of attention for its unusual aim of joining together DNA research and social networking.
It’s an arena sure to be interesting, so here’s a video I made of my tour of 23andMe:

The service, which [...]

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Here’s the second part of a longer interview I did with 23andMe’s co-founders Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey about the personal online genetics and social-networking service, which is being launched today.

The company name comes from the 23 pairs of chromosomes that make up each individual’s genome.
In this part, they talk about the privacy of [...]

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Here’s the first part of a longer interview I did with 23andMe’s co-founders Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey about the personal online genetics and social-networking service, which is being launched today.

The company name comes from the 23 pairs of chromosomes that make up each individual’s genome.
In this part, they talk about why customers would [...]

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