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Nov 09, 2007

Hsien-Hsien Lei at Eye on DNA points out a project of the Genomics Policy Research Unit at the University of Glamorgan that recently received a grant from the Wellcome Trust for £128,000 over two years. In a focus group meant to promote genetic literacy, researchers will interview teenagers from South Wales about their ideas and attitudes toward cancer genetics and cardiac genetics.

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