Feb 20, 2009 2:45 PM

A tough call

I’m struggling to figure out what is more disturbing about this post – the fact that 23andMe are actually trying to say that BRCA gene testing is not “medical genetic testing”, or Steve Murphy talking about his “man parts”. Subscribe to Genetic Future.

I'm struggling to figure out what is more disturbing about this post - the fact that 23andMe are actually trying to say that *BRCA *gene testing is not "medical genetic testing", or Steve Murphy talking about his "man parts".

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Daniel MacArthur is a UK-based geneticist who writes about the emerging industry of consumer genomics. He also blogs about personal genomics at Genomes Unzipped. ... Read More

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