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YOU are a living data record. Every cell in your body contains genetic information that, if combined with other genomes into a giant database, could form part of one of the most powerful medical diagnostic tools ever created.
England’s National Health Service is preparing to do just that. “We need to welcome the genomic era and deliver the genomic dream,” the country’s chief medical officer, Sally Davies, wrote in a report published earlier this year calling for the expansion of genomic healthcare.
“By bringing together lots of people’s genomes and their health data, and following them long term over
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