Nature readers flirt with personal genomics

摘要

Ronald Worthington lives an examined life. The genome analyst, who works at Southern Illinois University School of Pharmacy in Edwardsville, got funding from his university to have his entire genome sequenced by Complete Genomics in Mountain View, California. He also ordered the sequence of the coding regions of his genome, known as the exome, from Otogenetics in Tucker, Georgia, and he will soon be giving skin and blood samples that will be used to immortalize his cells and DNA.