Yesterday I posted a brief rant about the need for researchers to think about the best way to return genetic research data to participants, spinning off an equally brief opinion piece I wrote for the ongoing ELSI series at Genomics Law Report.
Today Dan Vorhaus has posted an excellent piece on the same topic over at GLR, triggered by an exchange between 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki and Kaiser Permanente. Go check it out.
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