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Who knows how long it will take for personal genomes to become useful, but one thing is for certain, someday it will be said that it all started with the genomes of ten volunteers.

From a very thoughtful comment by Willy Lensch on this blog post about last Wednesday’s meeting with the first 8 volunteers and the staff of the Personal Genome Project (including me).

More notes on the meeting to follow soon…

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  Even if you didn't know it before this moment, getting a personal copy of your genome sequence is a lifestyle choice that you may want to consider.

  
  

  So are you going to take the personal genomics plunge? How are you going to decide? What are the issues? How are other people making this decision? Who is doing interesting work relevant to these choices? By the way, what is relevant? These are some of the issues this blog is intended to address.




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