If you take two members of the human race at random and ask how much their genomes differ, you’ll get a surprising answer: they’re almost identical.
On average, for every 1,000 DNA bases you have, 999 or so of them are exactly the same between you and your neighbor – and for that matter, between you [...]

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An editorial in the February issue of Nature Genetics makes a number of excellent points about the potential that personal genomics services such as 23andMe have to directly engage the public in research, not just as subjects but as collaborators.
23andMe was founded in part to harness the natural curiosity that results when people can see [...]

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