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Personal-genome tests are blurring the boundary between experts and lay people. Barbara Prainsack, Jenny Reardon and a team of international collaborators urge regulators to rethink outdated models of regulation.

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We thank Nikolas Rose for helpful discussions.

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  1. and in the Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology at King's College London, Barbara Prainsack is at the Centre for Biomedicine & Society, London WC2R 2LS, UK. barbara.prainsack@kcl.ac.uk,

    Barbara Prainsack

  2. Jenny Reardon is in the Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA.,

    Jenny Reardon

  3. Richard Hindmarsh is at the Griffith School of Environment, and Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, 4111 Queensland, Australia.,

    Richard Hindmarsh

  4. Department of Political Science, Herbert Gottweis and Ursula Naue are at the Life Science Governance Research Platform, University of Vienna, Vienna A-1010, Austria.,

    Herbert Gottweis & Ursula Naue

  5. Jeantine E. Lunshof is in the Department of Social Medicine, the Netherlands; and the Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Maastricht University, 6211 LK Maastricht, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.,

    Jeantine E. Lunshof

  6. and the Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.,

    Jeantine E. Lunshof

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Prainsack, B., Reardon, J., Hindmarsh, R. et al. Misdirected precaution. Nature 456, 34–35 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456034a

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