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”.
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”.
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...
Razib Khan comments on the ethics of making your genome public without the consent of your family: “On genetic privacy”.
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...
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...
Ben Phelan at Slate writes about the recent evolution of lactase persistence: “The Most Spectacular Mutation in Recent Human History”.
An article in The Awl by Russell Brandom sighs disappointedly about commercially available personal genome testing (“Everything I Didn’t Learn From Taking A ...
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”.
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 ...
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...
Nature Reviews Genetics this month has published a panel conversation between five experts on pharmacogenomics Altman:pharmacogenomics:2010. If you’re intere...
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...