Personal-genome tests are blurring the boundary between experts and lay people. Barbara Prainsack, Jenny Reardon and a team of international collaborators urge regulators to rethink outdated models of regulation.
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Prainsack, B., Reardon, J., Hindmarsh, R. et al. Misdirected precaution. Nature 456, 34–35 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456034a
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