Consumers can pay a couple of hundred dollars to find out their ancestry or a couple of thousand dollars to find out their cancer risk. Not everyone agrees that this is a good idea.
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De Francesco, L. Genetic profiteering. Nat Biotechnol 24, 888–890 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0806-888
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