Personal Genomics

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• Genomes for all

  
  genomeboy.com — Authority: 457
  Jenny Reardon on those who choose to opt out : Only significant effort will achieve the participation of the broader and more diverse range of human beings required for [genomic] research. Understanding why some people participate, and many do not, will demand understanding the specific ways in which genomic ideas ...
  2 weeks ago

• Personal Genomics Agonistes

  
  genomeboy.com — Authority: 457
  At Nature News, there is something of a eulogy/finger-pointing festival for deCODE and indeed, for personal genomics in general: …Some other researchers, however, say that deCODE’s scientific approach is to blame. The company worked to mine genetic data for common variations linked to disease through ...
  2 weeks ago

• The price of ascendancy

  
  genomeboy.com — Authority: 457
  From a compelling story in the New York Times Magazine : In an age of DNA, when biological relationships can be identified with certainty, it can seem absurd to hew so closely to a centuries-old idea of paternity. And yet basing paternity decisions solely on genetics places the nonbiological father’s welfare ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brother, can you spare a Krona?

  
  genomeboy.com — Authority: 457
  Dan and Daniel have all of the incisive analysis you need about the deCODE unraveling . Meanwhile, Steve invokes Sartre : Publicly owned companies shares are extremely liquid and can be crushed pretty easily, where as rich ol’ moneybags (SergeandMe) can keep throwing money into the kitty and outlast this ...
  3 weeks ago

• 23andMe raises prices, splits its health and ancestry analyses

  
  Genetic Future — Authority: 524
  Personal genomics company 23andMe announced yesterday on its blog (and in an email to customers) of impending changes to its product line. Until now 23andMe has offered only two products: its $399 full scan, and a $99 Research Revolution product that offers limited functionality and a focus on common disease risk ...
  3 weeks ago

• Avey-ation

  
  genomeboy.com — Authority: 457
  23andMe co-founder and President of the nascent Brainstorm Research Foundation Linda Avey is blogging: The usual arrows were flying at the HUGO conference…a few, very vocal scientists seem to be quite threatened by this notion of democratizing DNA. They characterize it as “trivializing”, which simply ...
  3 weeks ago

• The downward spiral

  
  genomeboy.com — Authority: 457
  In case you missed it : The average sequencing consumables cost for these three genomes was under $4,400 ( table S5 ). The raw base and variant call accuracy achieved compares favorably with other reported human genome sequences (2–12). The Complete Genomics folks have sequenced a human genome at 45x ...
  4 weeks ago

• Required reading

  
  genomeboy.com — Authority: 457
  The Genomics Law Report continues to dazzle. Two recent commentaries merit special attention. Daniel MacArthur on  the right of research participants to the entirety of their data : Returning incidental findings poses major challenges for researchers: it requires disrupting well-established protocols for ...
  4 weeks ago

• 30,000…it’s all relative

  
  genomeboy.com — Authority: 457
  From mobihealthnews : At the TEDMED event here in San Diego this week, personal genomics company 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki announced that the company now had more than 30,000 “active” genomes in its database and that it would soon launch a “Relative Finder” service for its users. As part of ...
  5 weeks ago

• 23andMe announces "Relative Finder" at TEDMED

  
  race/history/evolution notes — Authority: 123
  23andMe say they have 30,000+ "active" genomes in their database and will launch Relative Finder "soon". The beta version of Relative Finder has been available for about a week. One interesting note: while Northwestern European American users typically have on the order of 200 "cousins" listed in Relative Finder, ...
  5 weeks ago

• Hard times in Mountain View

  
  genomeboy.com — Authority: 457
  I am assuming the timing of the “going bust” thought experiment was only a coincidence: Personal genomics startup 23andMe has just gone through a round of layoffs, we’ve confirmed . The company declined to comment on how many people were laid off, but offered this statement: We have reduced our ...
  5 weeks ago

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