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Watson's Whole Genome? Well, Not Quite...

Apr 02, 2007

Two years ago, James Watson agreed that 454 Life Sciences could sequence his DNA and publish his genome. According to David Ewing Duncan’s blog over at MIT's Technology Review, Watson asked for his apoE gene results to be deleted from the final draft and now may ask for even more disease markers to be left out of his genome when it goes public.

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