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Harvard Mapping My DNA Turns Scary – Bloomberg

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-15/harvard-mapping-my-dna-turns-scary-as-threatening-gene-emerges.html

Evidence report with JAK2 variant – http://evidence.personalgenomes.org/huA90CE6 .

My comment in response to https://plus.google.com/u/0/102948203403308799263/posts/NBHErsbBLxL

“Enjoyed this story very much. Finding that one has a rare but powerful variant will probably one of the first practical ways that personal genomics will impact actual people’s lives — particularly with the ramping up the NHGRI supported sequencing on simple Mendelian disorders.”