Link: Privacy and sharing genomic data for research
Good article in Undark about privacy and genome sequencing in the era of data sharing, by Adam Tanner: “The Promise and Perils of Sharing Your DNA”.
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Personal genomes may help students learn genetics
A new paper in PLoS ONE presents a small-scale study of the effects of personal genomics on learning genetics in the classroom Salari:2013: “Evidence That Pe...
Privacy, family history, and genomes
Razib Khan comments on the ethics of making your genome public without the consent of your family: “On genetic privacy”.
"I am so happy that my genome didnt come back all normal"
Ed Yong has followed the touching story of the Grossman family, whose daughter Lilly has suffered throughout her life from a serious and unknown disorder: “W...
"No more complicated than setting up an Orange Julius franchise"
That quote is from Misha Angrist, about the coming genetic interpretation industry. It’s part of an essay by Virginia Hughes, in Slate: “Its Time To Stop Obs...
Link parade, 2
Ben Phelan at Slate writes about the recent evolution of lactase persistence: “The Most Spectacular Mutation in Recent Human History”.
Postmodernists are genetic determinists?
An article in The Awl by Russell Brandom sighs disappointedly about commercially available personal genome testing (“Everything I Didn’t Learn From Taking A ...
Personalized genomics beats personalized genetics
Joe Pickrell encountered sticker shock when faced with the prospect of a medical sequencing test: “The week that I worried I had a rare genetic disease”.
Data minding
Dan MacArthur reads the American Medical Association’s letter to the FDA about direct-to-consumer genetics testing, and doesn’t like what he sees (“American ...
Paying for personalized medicine
Virginia Hughes writes about the challenges on the business side of personalized medicine: “Genomics Revolution(s)”. She builds the topic up from a few peopl...
Genes and drugs
Nature Reviews Genetics this month has published a panel conversation between five experts on pharmacogenomics Altman:pharmacogenomics:2010. If you’re intere...
Ancestry unzipped
One of the incredible benefits of the open source approach to genomics is that non-practitioners have a chance to see how interpretations are built. Sometime...