This type of crowd-sourced gene analysis could be highly accurate, perhaps more so than a single company gene test where you have no way of knowing if the company has made a mistake.

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To get a new gene count, Velculescu and his colleagues used a different technology called serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE), which was developed at Johns Hopkins University and licensed to Cambridge, Mass.

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They also recommend that new technologies, such as microarray analysis of gene activity, be used by regulators alongside conventional assessments of nutritional value and toxicity.

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