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For the past few days I've been avidly following Daniel MacArthur's tweets from the Personal Genome Conference at Cold Spring Harbor(@dgmacarthur #cshlpg). The Personal Genomics tweets aren't just interesting because of the science, they're interesting because MacArthur and others have started to take on the conventional dogma in genetic ethics. For years, there has been a strong message from the clinical genetics and genetics education community that genetic information is dangerous. Unlike the other medical tests we're continually urged to get (mammograms, blood pressure readings, sugar…