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Why the UK wants to share everything it knows about the genetics of 500,000 Britons

David Adam | 
Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world ...
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How well-intentioned research into ‘gay genes’ spawned controversial DNA screening app

Megan Molteni | 
A giant collection of carefully cataloged genomes, called the UK Biobank, was about to become available to researchers. … To [researcher ...
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500,000-genome-strong UK Biobank offers ‘wisdom from crowds’

Precision medicine aims to improve treatments for individuals, but to do so it needs information from crowds. Only by tracking ...
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Understanding the genetics of height—and why it matters in the fight against many human disorders

Jennifer Cable | 
Hoping to help researchers find links between diseases and mutations, the UK Biobank opened its vault last summer, allowing access ...
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