Peering into My Own Genome
August 17, 2015
(Med Page Today) – All this comes from my participation in the Personal Genome Project Canada (PGPC), which is part of an international endeavor — started at Harvard University several years back — to obtain the complete genetic sequences of hundreds of thousands of people. That data would be available to researchers and paired with information about the person’s physical attributes, family history, and medical records with the goal of being able to understand how genes interact with environment to produce … well, you or me.