Direct-to-consumer genetic testing: advantages and pitfalls

Affiliations

Bermseok Oh. Genomics Inform. 2019 Sep.

. 2019 Sep;17(3):e33.

doi: 10.5808/GI.2019.17.3.e33. Epub 2019 Sep 26.

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

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