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Report recommends more scrutiny for direct-to-consumer genomic tests
by Professor Anneke Lucassen and 1 others
Direct-to-consumer genomic testing is a thriving market – for example by June 2020, 23andMe had sold over a quarter of a million testing kits in the UK...