Although the price tag for genetic studies is dropping, clinicians’ expertise remains expensive, and that worries Brunner. “Certainly with the amount of money people are spending genotyping thousands of patients, they are finding that the quality of the phenotype data is crucial,” Brunner says. That’s why, he says, a ‘phenome project’ is needed to investigate connections between phenotypes. The idea has been proposed before but stalled for lack of funding.
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."