Despite continued doubts about the clinical utility of direct-to-consumer genetic tests, tens of thousands of people have sent away tubes full of their saliva to learn more about their genetic profiles. Armed with such DNA data, a number of early adopters are showing how empowering—and beneficial to science—personal genetic information can be. Elie Dolgin reports on one company's plans to make medical genetics more participatory.
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07 October 2010
In the September 2010 issue of Nature Medicine, the article entitled ‘Personalized investigation’ (Nat. Med. 16, 953, 2010) misspelled the last name of Mike Cariaso as Cariaaroso in one instance. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
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Dolgin, E. Personalized investigation. Nat Med 16, 953–955 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0910-953
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