Available, of course, via th Interwub (oh, and $1,000 and a test tube of saliva) c/o the friendly folk at 23andMe – a Google spinoff that “performs coding of single nucleotide polymorphisms at nearly 600,000 SNPs scattered across the 23 pairs of chromosomes” (uh, right…)

The service supposedly correlates your genes to known findings within the scientific literature, and presents them in an accessible format.

Now, not too many folk are going to stump up that kind of cash without knowing what they’re likely to get, so Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has had a crack at it for your benefit – and the results are pretty interesting!

Some of the information is just for fun – I have “wet earwax,” for example, and don’t have the “alcohol flush” gene that turns people’s faces red when they drink. I don’t detect odors as well as some people. Less usefully, 23andMe notifies me that I have brown eyes. I have a gene which makes people tall (I’m 6′4). I do not have a sweet tooth.

Then there is the more serious stuff. It turns out I have a gene that makes me substantially more likely to have lower back pain (something that has plagued my father all his life, but not me so far)

I have a higher than normal chance of getting Type 1 diabetes, but a lower than normal of getting Type 2. I have a lower than average chance of getting prostate cancer and Rheumatoid Arthritis. I do not have the genetic material that gives some people resistance to AIDS, although I do have a gene that makes it progress more slowly. I am not genetically resistant to Malaria. I have slightly increased memory performance.

via Medgadget