Millions of people each year are giving up their genotype information for research, for health, for fun and now for profit.
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DeFrancesco, L., Klevecz, A. Your DNA broker. Nat Biotechnol 37, 842–847 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0200-5
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