Showing posts with label genetic variations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genetic variations. Show all posts

Thursday, July 20, 2017

'We are all mutants now': the trouble with genetic testing; Guardian, July 18, 2017

Carrie Arnold, Guardian; 'We are all mutants now': the trouble with genetic testing

"To get a better handle on all the variation in humans, scientists are going to need to sequence tens of millions of people. And the only way to ever get these kinds of large numbers is by sharing data. But regardless of how good the databases get, and how many people have their genomes sequenced, uncertainty will never completely go away."