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Comment: The FDA is overcautious about consumer genomics testing Image: Sandy Huffaker/Bloomberg/Getty Evidence is emerging that consumer genetics testing does not cause distress or risky behaviour, say bioethicist and legal scholar Nita Farahany and medical geneticist Robert C. Green in a Comment piece in this week’s Nature.  Farahany and Green describe several studies assessing how a total of more than 5,000 individuals who underwent consumer genomics testing responded to their own genetic information, noting that there was no clear evidence of harm and some evidence of benefit.  Access the article online. Please note that this email refers to a Nature Comment piece, not a Nature research paper or article. Comment pieces are topical, authoritative Op-Eds pertaining to scientific research and its ramifications. Click here to register for updates from Nature.   This offer is not available in Japan, Korea and mainland China (excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan). As a registered user of Nature Publishing Group's Web sites, our database indicates that you have opted-in to receive product information and special offers. If you no longer wish to receive these e-mails or to discontinue all e-mail services from Nature Publishing Group please update your online account. Modify My Account (Log in to be recognised as a Nature.com registrant). For further information on technical assistance | print subscriptions | other enquiries. Nature Publishing Group | Principal offices: London | New York and Tokyo, and offices in cities worldwide including Boston | Buenos Aires | Cairo | Delhi | Mumbai | Hong Kong | Madrid | Barcelona | Munich | Heidelberg | Basingstoke | Melbourne | Paris | San Francisco | Seoul and Washington DC. Macmillan Publishers Limited is a company incorporated in England & Wales under company number 785998 & whose registered office is located at Brunel Road, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Nature Publishing Group | 75 Varick St Fl 9 | New York | NY 10013-1917 | USA © 2014 Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.