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For TB alone, more than 50 firms are developing or already selling tests that might be useful in poor places.

Theral Timpson, president of Consumer Genetics, said his company, in Sunnyvale, Calif., had not raised much money yet and hoped to support itself by selling tests in the meantime.

That means it's probably going to need more data-sharing arrangements like one announced at today's Cancer Moonshot Summit in Washington, D.C., between the National Cancer Institute and Foundation Medicine, a biotech firm selling tests that sequence tumor genomes.

Last year, companies including Guardant Health and Personal Genome Diagnostics began selling tests that create a genetic profile of a person's cancer from mutated DNA fragments found in a blood sample.

Products range from Everlywell's series of food sensitivities, breast milk and metabolic activity tests to ever-popular ancestry tests (which are among the best selling tests across the board and also the prime product for Helix's closest approximate — 23andMe).

Color Genomics, a Burlingame, Calif.-based startup that has made a name for itself by selling tests for genes that dramatically raise the risk of cancer, is moving into a new area: heart disease.

Several companies began selling test kits.

It shut down an online firm selling "tested green" certifications for products that were neither tested nor green.

"We're potentially entering a retail era where companies are marketing and selling testing services directly to the consumer," said Dr. Bruce A. Friedman, a pathology professor at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Last week, a Houston, Texas, company called Gene by Gene (GBG) retreated from its Myriad challenge, agreeing to stop selling test kits in North America.

The company has had a good run selling test stands, which cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, to other fuel-cell developers.