ASHG 2008: A stance, more or less, on genetic ancestry testing
ASHG released recommendations today about how researchers and direct to consumer companies should treat the sometimes fraught area of genetic ancestry testing. Although a seemingly innocuous area both for research and for consumer products, ancestry testing does carry with it tricky ethical, legal and social issues when one considers how people might treat such data. I did a quick Q&A with Charmaine Royal of Duke University, who co-chaired the task force on the topic (find it here). Read more