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Honest Jim talks manners

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  • Huntington F. Willard

    (Huntington F. Willard is director of the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.)

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Common ground A personal DNA sequence — as this week's cover story illustrates — is revealing yet frustrating. It could yield so much more useful information if we had the means of interpreting all that data. In a Commentary, Steven Brenner proposes the means: a Genome Commons. This is a public knowledge base of genetic variation and its effect, culled from databases, diagnostic labs and the scientific literature. Such a repository would be a vast resource for research, medicine and understanding ourselves. Continuing the personal genomics theme, autobiographies from two sequenced individuals who need no introduction are reviewed. And in a Special Report, Ricki Lewis looks at the growth of the genetic counselling profession.

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  • Huntington F. Willard, 2007. "Honest Jim talks manners," Nature, Nature, vol. 449(7164), pages 787-787, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:449:y:2007:i:7164:d:10.1038_449787a
    DOI: 10.1038/449787a
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