Dec 12 2008
Leading Geneticist Spells Out the Promise of Personal Genomics
As the director of Britain’s Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics, Peter Donnelly oversees research that provides vital raw material for the 23andMe Personal Genome Service™ — specifically, correlations between one-letter DNA variations, known as SNPs, and particular diseases.
Those correlations are made by research projects known as genome-wide association studies (GWAS), which scan the genomes [...]
