“ With only a few exceptions, what the genomics companies are doing right now is recreational genomics. The information has little or in many cases no clinical relevance.”
David Goldstein, Geneticist @ Duke University.
Kudos to the NYTimes for going against the trend piece tide (for once) and pointing out that DNA is not a magic bullet that will explain all our pains and mysteries at once. The 23andMe wave is just another round of brain-scans and phrenology that aims to reduce complex problems to a single variable. So glad to find this article this morning. I’m pretty sure this is the first DNA debunking science journalism I’ve encountered in the mainstream press. (via NYTimes.com)
Source: The New York Times
