The wisdom of crowds
I received this last week just before I left town. No, it’s not a bar mitzvah invitation…it’s more like a birth announcement, I suppose. Navigenics sent me an offer to become a “charter member” and a 20%-off coupon (which seems to have expired already). Even though the Personal Genome Project will soon genotype the bejeezus out of me (if it hasn’t already), I am still keen to use one or more of the commercial services. I’m still not sure about which one(s) (or how to pay for it), but I think if I am to write about these companies with any sort of authority, then it’s only right to have walked the walk at least once.
UPDATE: Navigenics co-founder and CSO Dietrich Stephan informs me that the invite was mailed with plenty of time before expiration. I should say I didn’t mean to point the finger in anything other than a teasing way and, coupon or no, the Navigenics folks have been nothing less than gracious and helpful to me. For that I am grateful.
I work as an Assistant Professor in the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (although this site and its content are my own).
In 2007 I became the fourth subject in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome Project. As the PGP moves forward, I am chronicling the dawn of personal genomics, that is, people obtaining their genomic information for whatever reason(s) and figuring out what to do with it. I am interested in the relevant technologies and especially the attendant privacy and other ethical/legal/social issues.
This blog may also discuss some of my non-genome interests or, to paraphrase Dwight Yoakam, "Guitars, Cadillacs, hillbilly music, etc etc."
The header image comes from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's multimedia performance piece, "Ferocious Beauty: Genome."
February 5th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Looks like awfully nice paper. I guess that’s what 25 million will get ya.
I hope the envelope was just as nice
-Steve
www.helixhealth.org
February 8th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
[…] The wisdom of crowds I received this last week just before I left town. No, it’s not a bar mitzvah invitation…it’s more like a birth announcement, I suppose. Navigenics sent me an offer to become a “charter member” and a 20%-off coupon (which seems to have expired already). Even though the Personal Genome Project and another research endeavor I can’t discuss yet will soon genotype the bejeezus out of me (if they haven’t already), I am still keen to use one or more of the commercial services. I’m still not sure a […]
March 13th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
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