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I’m totally in this one! Add me to the contestants

well, after his recent fiasco regarding “superiority” claims, J. Watson is no longer any leading scientist to me… C. Venter has an interesting charisma, isn’t he? I’ve read text in amazon about his new book, and liked his notes regarding public science and medicine.
Therefore this book would be my digest and fit well near the Watson’s “Double helix” or “DNA” on my shelf:)

When Watson is wrong, Venter is right Would love to read this book.

I have involved in the project of genetic diagnosis of hereditary colorectal cancer several years and I’d like to share a little bit opinion about the field. The usefulness of the diagnosis depends on the knowledge of the disease, genetics and genes study. For the field of hereditary colorectal cancer (FAP and HNPCC), there are some information available from research and service, it is very useful for the index patient and their family member to take the diagnosis to deal with the cancer. Also as we knew the penetrate of APC mutation to cause FAP phenotype is almost 100%, while penetrate of MLH1 and MSH2 mutation to cause HNPCC phenotype can increase the cancer at least five fold, genetic diagnosis of APC gene can give more precise and accurate prediction (though MLH1 and MSH2 genetic diagnosis still provide important information of the index patient and their family member).

Francis Collins is indeed alive and well. I heard him speak and met with him several times at the ASHG conference in San Diego this week. He spoke more about ENCODE, GINA, the Human Microbiome Project, the current reality that your knowing your personal genome today is not the key to knowing everything about your health (it may be in the future as science advances), and Secretary Leavitt’s personalized medicine emphasis.

Dean Suhr
President

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