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Personal utility is inherent to direct-to-consumer genomic testing
- Correspondence to Joseph Chi Fung Ng, School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, 1/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; cf1994{at}hku.hk
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Personal utility is inherent to direct-to-consumer genomic testing
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- Received August 5, 2015
- Revised January 28, 2016
- Accepted May 11, 2016
- First published June 1, 2016.
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September 23, 2016
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