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  • Avey-ation


    genomeboy.com — Authority Authority: 412
    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 days ago

  • The downward spiral


    genomeboy.com — Authority Authority: 412
    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 days ago

  • Required reading


    genomeboy.com — Authority Authority: 412
    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 ...
    1 week ago

  • 30,000…it’s all relative


    genomeboy.com — Authority Authority: 412
    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 ...
    1 week ago

  • 23andMe announces "Relative Finder" at TEDMED


    race/history/evolution notes — Authority Authority: 486
    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, ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Hard times in Mountain View


    genomeboy.com — Authority Authority: 412
    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 ...
    2 weeks ago

  • GINA: a harsh, exceptionalist mistress?


    genomeboy.com — Authority Authority: 412
    Excerpts from The Federal Register, 7 October 2009 (pdf, but a total page-turner): Genetic information is defined, with respect to an individual, as information about the individual’s genetic tests or the genetic tests of family members, the manifestation of a disease or disorder in family members of such ...
    4 weeks ago

  • Independent measurements out the wazoo


    genomeboy.com — Authority Authority: 412
    Stephen Quake discusses what he learned from his genome : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_8eb5lgpoQ FWIW, Quake, co-founder of Helicos , interpreted his sequence using Trait-o-matic , an open-source app developed in the Church lab that I and the rest of the PGP-10 are using to interrogate our genomes ...
    4 weeks ago

  • 23andMe performs genome-wide association study on NFL players, fails to find athlete genes


    Genetic Future — Authority Authority: 511
    Details are pretty sketchy, but a press release announced today suggests that personal genomics company 23andMe has performed a genome-wide association study comparing 100 current or former professional NFL players with a set of controls of unspecified sample size. The shocking result: The study did not ...
    4 weeks ago

  • Personal genomics, beyond the hype


    Gene Expression — Authority Authority: 474
    ScienceDaily has an interesting piece, Individual Genetic Data Illuminates How Genes Influence Human Health . Points to two papers, Epistasis and Its Implications for Personal Genetics and Genetic Population Structure Analysis in New Hampshire Reveals Eastern European Ancestry . If you read a weblog like Genetic ...
    8 weeks ago

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