What about the less obvious errors?
The New Scientist points out a case of genotyping error by one of the consumer genomics companies, where a software bug caused a genotype to appear non-human. The article attempts to be reassuring: Before other deCODEme customers get too irate about errors in data for which they have paid almost $1000, the bug affects only a tiny portion of the results presented. Most importantly, the disease-risk summaries provided by deCODEme seem to be based on the correct genetic information. “seem to be” is the operative terminology, indeed. As is typical in security / quality-control settings, the question here is, if … Continue reading What about the less obvious errors?