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Commentary on human genetics and evolution, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, and the personal genomics industry.
Daniel MacArthur
I write about the genetic and evolutionary basis of human variation, and the companies trying to sell you information about your genome.
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June 24, 2009
Category: personal genomics
Personal genomics company 23andMe is sponsoring a bill that would change the regulatory landscape of the direct-to-consumer genetic testing industry.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 8:35 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: direct-to-consumer genetic testing
GenomeWeb reports that the advocacy group Genetic Alliance is lobbying the FDA for the construction of a public registry of genetic tests:[Genetic Alliance Director of Genetics and Health Policy Kristi] Zonno said FDA should create a public registry for genetic...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 7:10 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: conference blogging
A Nature News article discusses the promise and the perils of live-blogging conference presentations.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 6:01 PM • 1 Comments •
June 23, 2009
Category: direct-to-consumer genetic testing
Author David Ewing Duncan officially has the most annotated genome of any human being; but given that the majority of those annotations are wrong and most of the remainder only weakly predictive, he's also a powerful illustration of how far we need to go before the era of personal genomics comes to fruition.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 8:15 AM • 6 Comments •
June 21, 2009
This is slightly unusual subject matter for this blog, but I found this presentation by 2001 Nobel Prize winner Paul Nurse absolutely fascinating. It's an account of his slow unravelling of his family background, told to an audience at the...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 9:58 AM • 1 Comments •
June 19, 2009
Category: conference blogging
An editorial in Nature clarifies the issues surrounding blogging of unpublished data in conference presentations, confirming that this will not be considered to break embargo on work considered for publication in the journal.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 7:37 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: personal genomics
A new personal genomics company has launched, with a novel gimmick - it's offering it's first 10,000 genome scans free to customers. What's the catch?
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 7:31 PM • 6 Comments •
June 18, 2009
Category: conference blogging
Readers who haven't seen it already may be interested in the post and subsequent discussion on conference blogging taking place on Dr Isis' blog.I feel that Dr Isis' post misrepresents my position in several ways (see this clarifying comment from...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 7:38 PM • 6 Comments •
June 17, 2009
Category: conference blogging
While we wait for conference organisers to begin formulating specific policies for live-blogging, it would be ideal if we had some way for speakers to indicate whether their presentation is freely bloggable - so I'm calling for suggestions for a useful intro slide icon indicating that a talk is "blog-safe". Any ideas?
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 11:20 AM • 17 Comments •
June 16, 2009
Category: personal genomics
Francis Collins - former head of the National Human Genome Research Institute and current rock star of science - provides a balanced review of personal genomics, and a very optimistic vision for the impact of genomics on medicine.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 7:21 PM • 12 Comments •
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