Patients Share DNA for Cures

Valentijn

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Wouldn't it be great, if some PWCs would share their genomic information, too? If nobody helps patients, patients should help themselves. I'm in!
A lot of us have been sharing our 23andMe results in the SNP subforum. There's a thread comparing rare allele data at http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/rare-allele-data.23978/ and my fiance and I have created a much easier and faster rare allele analysis program which is discussed at http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/download-for-rare-snp-analysis.24983
 

cigana

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Wouldn't it be great, if some PWCs would share their genomic information, too? If nobody helps patients, patients should help themselves. I'm in!
I've tried to encourage people to share results before, but with no luck. It is a shame, I think there could be game-changing discoveries to be made by just analysing large enough data sets. It's pretty much the only thing we could do to help ourselves.
 

Waverunner

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I've tried to encourage people to share results before, but with no luck. It is a shame, I think there could be game-changing discoveries to be made by just analysing large enough data sets. It's pretty much the only thing we could do to help ourselves.

May I ask which results you were referring to? Whole genome sequencing is still pretty expensive (3k to 5k?).
 

cigana

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Anything and everything, including just personal information like location, disease history etc.
I would devote time to creating a database if I could think of a way to encourage people to use it...