Critiquing coverage of the new personal genomics reports

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Geneticist Daniel MacArthur doesn't like what newspapers are writing about a pair of upcoming presentations at the European Society of Human Genetics annual meeting. "In neither case (as far as I can tell) has the actual research been published," MacArthur writes on Wired.com. "That hasn’t stopped the release being trumpeted by media as a blow against the personal genomics industry" and companies like 23andMe and deCODEme.

June 1, 2011

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