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23andMe's president is stepping down

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The president of 23andMe, a consumer genetics company, is stepping down.

Andy Page, who has been at 23andMe since 2013, will remain on the company's board, while all of his direct reports are going to report to CEO Anne Wojcicki, according to a letter sent to employees obtained and first reported by Recode

"Departing 23andMe is bittersweet for me," Page said in an emailed statement to Business Insider. "On one hand, I will miss the adventures of being with all of the teams day-to-day. On the other hand, I am so pleased that I’ve been able to accomplish what I was brought in to do. I take deep pride in how far 23andMe has come in four short years, and that we are at a stage of strength and maturity where Anne can take the sole leadership role. It has been an incredible ride and I am looking forward to remaining active on the board and assisting the company however I can."

The news comes only a few weeks after Buzzfeed reported that the company won't be pursuing next-generation sequencing, a new, more expensive area of genetic testing that companies have been adopting.

23andMe's chief medical officer Jill Hagenkord left the company in October and is now working at Color Genomics, a genetics testing company that uses next-generation sequencing for its cancer screening tests, under the same title.

In September, the company also said that it would now offer two versions of the test, including a $199 version, which comes with both the health and ancestry components, and a $99 version, which will just have the ancestry test.

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