{"id":38045,"date":"2011-02-24T17:31:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T01:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=10064"},"modified":"2011-02-24T17:31:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T01:31:19","slug":"run-as-fast-as-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/24\/run-as-fast-as-you-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Run as fast as you can!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since his move to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/02\/american-medical-association-you-cant-look-at-your-genome-without-our-supervision\/\">Wired<\/a> I swear that Dr. Daniel MacArthur has gotten a bit more pugnacious. In any case, today he has a post up which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/02\/american-medical-association-you-cant-look-at-your-genome-without-our-supervision\/\">smacks-down the A.M.A.&#8217;s attempt to expand the long arm of its regulatory capture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The American Medical Association has written a letter to the US Food and Drug Administration as part of the lead-up to the FDA\u2019s meeting on direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing next month. The tone is predictable: the medical establishment is outraged by the idea of people having access to their own genetic information without the supervision of its members, <strong>and they want the FDA to stop it&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the past six months I&#8217;ve gotten really into analyzing genotypes of friends &amp; family. Sometimes I talk about this excitedly, and people worry about the &#8220;risks.&#8221; When I ask what \u00a0risks they&#8217;re worried about, usually people offer the vague and content-free fear of &#8220;what you could find out.&#8221; First, <strong>if you have family information, that&#8217;s usually much more powerful than the &#8220;disease risk&#8221; estimates that these firms are giving you.<\/strong> In 99% of the cases, if that&#8217;s your primary concern it&#8217;s not worth the money. Second, if you&#8217;re terrified about what ancestry inference &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since his move to Wired I swear that Dr. Daniel MacArthur has gotten a bit more pugnacious. In any case, today he has a post up which smacks-down the A.M.A.&#8217;s attempt to expand the long arm of its regulatory capture:<br \/>\nThe American Medical Associat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,82,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-genomics","category-personal-genomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38045"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38122,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38045\/revisions\/38122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}