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Direct To Consumer Genomics – A Long Way To Go

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Once upon a time, when I was working for one of my prior employers (you can guess which one it was as the company name started with an ‘I’), the offer was made to have 23andMe to do whole-genome genotyping of myself and my immediate family. It being 2007 or so, the cost was not unreasonable in terms of the ’employee discount’ (23andMe used the company’s equipment and microarrays to do the genotyping) and after thinking about it for a few minutes, I decided to decline the offer.

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The whole-exome vs. whole-genome sequencing debate

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An enterprising salesperson from Complete Genomics used this newfangled social media thing called LinkedIn to make her mark on the world (perhaps) by posing a discussion question. (It was over at the ‘Genome Interpretation‘ group in case you were wondering.) Entitled, “The last days of exome sequencing“, she posed the question whether exome sequencing day’s were numbered.

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