23andMe was founded in 2006. Its original test (v1) cost $998. It was replaced in September 2008 by a more affordable test (v2) that only cost $400 and really kickstarted the company's rise. Two years later, v3 was released, which increased the number of SNPs to close to one million. Oddly enough the newest version (v4), released in Nov. 2013 only has 60% of the v3's SNPs. From May 2015 the number of SNPs was further lowered. I have not find any explanation for the reduction of SNPs in v4 and v4 bis.
Chip version | Introduced | Illumina BeadChip platform used | SNPs genotyped | Y-DNA SNPs | mtDNA SNPs |
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v1 | November 2007 | Illumina 4-sample HumanHap550 Plus | 576,000 | 1,880 | ? |
v2 | September 2008 | Illumina 4-sample HumanHap550 Plus | 597,000 | 1,821 | 2,040 |
v3 | November 2010 | Illumina 12-sample HumanOmniExpress Plus | 992,000 | 1,766 | 2,459 |
v4 | November 2013 | Illumina 24-sample HTS iSelect HD | 611,000 | 2,329 | 3,154 |
v4 bis | May 2015 | 598,897 | ? | ? | |
v5 | July 2017 | Infinium Global Screening Array-24 v1.0 BeadChip | 630,429 | 3,733 | 4,318 |
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