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September 10, 2007

Genomes to Consumers: Huzzah! Education for Consumers? Oops.

Over at his Genetic Genealogist blog, Blaine Bettinger flexes his journalistic muscles with a post in which he interviews Harvard's Dana Waring, who helped create pgEd, or the Personal Genetics Education Project. The project began when Ting Wu (Waring's PI) decided it would be important to start "looking at the potential social impact of genetic testing becoming mainstream -- personal genome sequencing to be exact," according to Waring.

 

 


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Thanks for mentioning the pgEd- we are busily preparing workshops and curriculum about genome sequencing - and hope to cook up some ways to widely share what we are doing. Stay tuned. We're aiming to get people thinking about the "personal" part of personal sequencing. The more people invited to the party, the better the chances the technology will be used appropriately, and better that the benefits and risks are out there (as much as they can be) before we all dive in!
Comment by: danawaring | 12:58 PM CT September 10


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