Many 23andMe customers participate with their family members, including parents, siblings, spouses, and more. When registering your kits, you can choose to establish separate accounts for each individual or place all family members in one account. There are a few aspects to consider when choosing which type of account to set up.
Separate Accounts
If you choose to create separate accounts, then each person will use their own email address and credentials to log in. You may choose to establish sharing connections across separate accounts, which will enable family members to view one another’s results. However, family members using separate accounts will not be able to see each other’s:
- Raw genetic data.
- Full list of DNA Relatives.
- Results for reports that require additional consent such as Late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease* and Parkinson’s Disease*.
Based upon how much information you wish to share and how frequently each person will be accessing their information, you can choose which registration method will work best for you.
Shared Account
If you choose to place all family members in a single account:
- There will be one email address and one log in method for the account.
- You will be required to use one of the following log in options for the account:
- SMS-based 2-step verification
- App-based 2-step verification
- Everyone who shares the account will have access to each individual’s genetic data.
- Each person will have a unique profile and each profile would have its own unique data set.
- You will be limited to 10 profiles in the shared account.
Registration
To register a kit into an existing account, click here and sign in to enter your log in credentials. If you created your account using Google or Apple®, click “Sign in with Google” or “Sign in with Apple”, depending on how your account was configured.
After entering the kit barcode, select whether you or someone else will be using the kit in question. In most instances, the individual registering should select "I will be using this kit." You should only select the other option if you will be registering on behalf of someone else, such as a child under 13 who cannot have his or her own account.
Navigation
Once you have registered profiles into a shared account, you will be able to navigate between profiles by selecting the profile name in the upper right corner and then clicking the desired profile from the drop-down list. For accounts with more than 3 profiles, you will first need to select Switch Profiles from the dropdown menu.
Sharing
When sending sharing invitations to friends or relatives in the Your Connections and DNA Relatives features, the recipient of that sharing invitation will only be able to see the reports for the profile you included in that invitation. However, you will be able to view the established sharing connection from any profile in your account. As an example, if you send a sharing request from your profile, the connection will appear as an option in the Your Connections feature for all profiles in your account — not just the profile that you shared back with that person.
Because of this functionality, accounts with multiple profiles may see sharing connections in the Your Connections feature that do not share segments of DNA with each profile in the account.
*The 23andMe PGS test uses qualitative genotyping to detect select clinically relevant variants in the genomic DNA of adults from saliva for the purpose of reporting and interpreting genetic health risks. It is not intended to diagnose any disease. Your ethnicity may affect the relevance of each report and how your genetic health risk results are interpreted. Each genetic health risk report describes if a person has variants associated with a higher risk of developing a disease, but does not describe a person’s overall risk of developing the disease. The test is not intended to tell you anything about your current state of health, or to be used to make medical decisions, including whether or not you should take a medication, how much of a medication you should take, or determine any treatment. For important information and limitations regarding each genetic health risk report, visit https://www.23andme.com/test-info/.
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