Friday, April 26, 2013

Free the Data on BRCA1 and BRCA2!

The New York Times recently featured Dr. Nassbaum, who has taken on a huge project - catalog all of the mutation data on the BRCA genes from researchers throughout the country. This will be essential information once BRCA testing is allowed by other laboratories.


Here's a link to the work his group is doing:

http://www.sharingclinicalreports.org/

 
Here's a link to the New York Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/health/dna-project-aims-to-make-companys-data-public.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&ref=health&

Yale is participating to make this project happen!

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