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Reproducing with DNA

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Finding partners through DNA profiles has yet to catch on, but the commercial sector for preconception and prenatal testing is booming. Malorye Allison Branca reports.

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    In the version of this article initially published, on p.1019, Yurttas Beim's name was misspelled as “Biem,” and on p.1020, Hank Greely's last name was misspelled as “Greeley” twice. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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Branca, M. Reproducing with DNA. Nat Biotechnol 35, 1016–1020 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4002

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