This Week in Nature

Oct 09, 2009

As Daniel MacArthur notes at his blog, Genetic Future, "The latest issue of Nature contains an embarrassment of riches for those of us interested in personal genomics." First up, a news story by Kelly Rae Chi checks into how successful genome-wide association studies have been in finding common variants.

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