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Erica Howton C

10/13/2015 at 1:50 PM

It looks like "scientist friend to Geni" Yaniv Erlich

http://www.nature.com/news/genome-hacker-uncovers-largest-ever-fami...

http://www.nature.com/news/scientists-hope-to-attract-millions-to-d...

Erlich hopes to tap the genomes of up to three million customers of companies such as 23andMe, Ancestry.com and Family Tree DNA. The companies allow people to download a file containing the readout of their genetic results.

By combining these data with other information about the participants, such as that on their health, Erlich hopes to assemble a very large data set. A recent analysis, for instance, suggested that as many as 2 billion genomes could be sequenced by 2025. “The sky is the limit,” he says.

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My cousin already uploaded his genome.

Erica Howton C

10/18/2015 at 12:41 PM

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/crowdsourcing-si...

The Crowdsourcing Site That Wants to Pool Our Genomes

A new non-profit site aims to open up genetic data for scientific research.
DNA.LAND, which Erlich developed together with colleague Joe Pickrell, is a website that allows customers of other genetic-testing services to upload files containing their genetic data. Scientists can then use this data for research, to the extent that each user consents to. “DNA.LAND is a way for getting the general public to participate in large-scale genetic studies,” says Erlich. “And we’re not a company. We’re a non-profit website, run by scientists.”

Erlich has a track record of similar projects: Two years ago, he assembled what is probably the world’s largest ever family tree by pooling 43 million profiles from a publicly available genealogy site.

Martin RhNegativ

10/19/2015 at 5:12 PM

https://dna.land/consent

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