Yes, you can!
Really, I thought this was going to be more challenging, but the nice folks at the NCBI have made a special personal genomics FTP site. You can also get Craig Venter's genome, and maybe even do some comparative genomics and see if one has a few deletions. After all, don't you want you find out who's is bigger?
Oh, I can tell this is going to be fun!
Get the traces at ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/TraceDB/Personal_Genomics
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