Health Care - General

Who Has Your Gene Data?

Myriad Genetics held patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA 2 genes until 2013 and tested more than 1 million patients and it still holds patients’ data and has been resistant to sharing it with researchers or public databases. On May 19th, a complaint was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union claiming Myriad Genetics has violated HIPAA by refusing to provide the full genotype data that they generated from patients.  Read article here……

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