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An agenda for personalized medicine

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Pauline C. Ng, Sarah S. Murray, Samuel Levy and J. Craig Venter find differences in results from two direct-toconsumer genetics-testing companies. They therefore give nine recommendations to improve predictions.

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  1. Pauline C. Ng and J. Craig Venter are at the J. Craig Venter Institute, Science Center Drive, San Diego, California 92121, USA. png@jcvi.org ,

    Pauline C. Ng & J. Craig Venter

  2. Sarah S. Murray is at Scripps Genomic Medicine, Scripps Translational Science Institute, North Torrey Pines Court, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.,

    Sarah S. Murray

  3. Samuel Levy is at the J. Craig Venter Institute, Medical Center Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA.,

    Samuel Levy

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