Professor Jacob Sherkow has co-authored a paper, "Regulating Direct-to-Consumer Polygenic Risk Scores," that was published in JAMA. In the paper, the authors argue that polygenic risk scores, which are used to predict risk factors for particular conditions using genetic data, require better government regulation.
Read the full paper at jamanetwork.com.
More from Sherkow on polygenic risk scores at igb.illinois.edu.