Scientists Hope To Attract Millions To "DNA.LAND" (nature.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Started by computational geneticist Yaniv Erlich, and geneticist Joseph Pickrell at the New York Genome Center and Columbia University in New York, DNA.Land is a project which hopes to create a crowdsourced DNA database for genetic studies. Nature reports: "The project, DNA.LAND, aims to entice people who have already had their genomes analyzed by consumer genetics companies to share that data, allowing DNA.LAND geneticists to study the information. Although some consumer genetic-testing companies share data with researchers, they provide only aggregate information about their customers, not individual genomes. Because the data are not always accompanied by detailed information on patients' health, they are of limited use for drawing links between genes and disease."

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So disappointed

[persicom]

Where's The Double Helix roller coaster?

Re:No way I'd agree to give away private data

[Anonymous Coward]

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- Yeah I've always wanted to work on Linux for a living.
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- Sigh. Do you have any openings in management?