Not exact matches
In addition to consenting to an IRB - approved trial in the first place,
participants must also give consent for
23andMe to share their personal data with the
research study, and may also consent to contributing anonymized data to
23andMe's proprietary database.
In return,
research participants can decide to enroll in the
23andMe database and receive information about their genetic makeup.
Beyond the information that study
participants can get back through
23andMe, the most important aspect of the new service is that it makes genetic
research accessible and relatively cheap for scientists, says Hariri.