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Cons and pros about sequencing your own genome and what you can actually right now…

Cons and pros about sequencing your own genome and what you can actually right now…

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Cons and pros about sequencing your own genome and what you can actually right now at this moment do with these kind of information/data. Quite a nice read I'd say. 

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What happened when I had my genome sequenced
It is 10 years since the human genome was first sequenced. In that time the cost per person has fallen from $2.7bn to just $5,000. Revealing our full DNA will revolutionise medicine – but it will also raise huge ethical questions about what we do with the information …


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I am a Lead Data Scientist at Microsoft in the World-Wide Data Insights CTO office focusing on cloud solutions for the Internet-of-Things, Big Data, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning. I obtained my PhD at the University of Cambridge specialising in Big Data Biology while being based at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

In my previous "academic life", I was working in Ewan Birney's research group. My main subject was understanding non-coding variation using genome-wide molecular assays, like FAIRE and CTCF, onto Human cell line populations. Another research interest was identification of whole-body phenotypes in Human MRI scans using Machine Learning techniques.

Furthermore, I'm the co-founder of Rijschoolvergelijker. The largest driving school comparison website in the Netherlands with European ambitions.

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