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  1. 1.

    http://www.amia.org/applications-informatics/translational-bioinformatics (Accessed 30/11/2012).

  2. 2.

    http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/pl104191.htm (Accessed 30/11/2012).

  3. 3.

    http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrsearch.cfm?cfrpart=11 (Accessed 30/11/2012).

  4. 4.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/genome (Accessed 30/11/2012).

  5. 5.

    AMIA is the American Medical Informatics Association, Bethesda, MD: http://www.amia.org

  6. 6.

    http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-06-002.html (Accessed 30/11/2012).

  7. 7.

    http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=CG (Accessed 12/3/2012).

  8. 8.

    http://www.geneontology.org/GO.tools.shtml#alphabet (Accessed 12/3/2012).

  9. 9.

    http://humanparalogy.gs.washington.edu/structuralvariation/general/intro.html (Accessed 12/3/2012).

  10. 10.

    http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-088.html (Accessed 12/6/2012).

  11. 11.

    http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ (Accessed 12/6/2012).

  12. 12.

    http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-088.html (Accessed 12/6/2012).

  13. 13.

    http://cancergenome.nih.gov/ (Accessed 12/6/2012).

  14. 14.

    https://www.wtccc.org.uk/index.shtml (Accessed 12/6/2012).

  15. 15.

    http://www.personalgenomes.org/ (Accessed 12/6/2012).

  16. 16.

    http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/SNPedia (Accessed 12/6/2012).

  17. 17.

    https://github.com/xwu/trait-o-matic/wiki (Accessed 12/19/2012).

  18. 18.

    http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/120091754.html (Accessed 12/21/12).

  19. 19.

    http://spittoon.23andme.com/2008/12/17/turning-research-participants-into-research-partners/ (Accessed 12/6/2012).

  20. 20.

    http://www.decode.com/research/ (Accessed 12/6/2012).

  21. 21.

    http://www.genomeweb.com/dxpgx/will-other-states-follow-ny-calif-taking-dtc-genetic-testing-firms (Accessed 12/6/2012).

  22. 22.

    https://www.23andme.com/health/BRCA-Cancer/ (Accessed 12/19/12).

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