Honest Jim talks manners

Huntington F. Willard
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Huntington F. Willard: Huntington F. Willard is director of the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.

Nature, 2007, vol. 449, issue 7164, 787-787

Abstract: Common ground A personal DNA sequence — as this week's cover story illustrates — is revealing yet frustrating. It could yield so much more useful information if we had the means of interpreting all that data. In a Commentary, Steven Brenner proposes the means: a Genome Commons. This is a public knowledge base of genetic variation and its effect, culled from databases, diagnostic labs and the scientific literature. Such a repository would be a vast resource for research, medicine and understanding ourselves. Continuing the personal genomics theme, autobiographies from two sequenced individuals who need no introduction are reviewed. And in a Special Report, Ricki Lewis looks at the growth of the genetic counselling profession.

Date: 2007
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