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How behavioral economics can help to avoid 'The last mile problem' in whole genome sequencing

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Genome Medicine
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -

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BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
DOI: 10.1186/s13073-015-0132-8

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  1. NHGRI NIH HHS [U01 HG006485, R21 HG006612, R01 HG005092, U01 HG006500, R01 HG002213] Funding Source: Medline
  2. NIA NIH HHS [K24 AG027841] Funding Source: Medline

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Failure to consider lessons from behavioral economics in the case of whole genome sequencing may cause us to run into the 'last mile problem' - the failure to integrate newly developed technology, on which billions of dollars have been invested, into society in a way that improves human behavior and decision-making.

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