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Geneticists Push For Databases Over Journals As Main Source of Information

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neoritter writes: The issues of reproducibility in journals continues to present problems. This time in the world of clinical geneticists where a misleading or incorrect journal on the effect of a gene variant can affect the decisions made by doctors and patients alike; from heart monitoring implants to abortions. Poor sampling and low thresholds for evidence have led some clinical geneticists to work towards an open database of genetic information. Scientists and doctors would go to a "one-stop shop for disease genes" to check and share information with each other under the strictest of standards.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Geneticists+Push+For+Databases+Over+Journals+As+Main+Source+of+Information%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1I9PiQY"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F12%2F16%2F2131231%2Fgeneticists-push-for-databases-over-journals-as-main-source-of-information%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/12/16/2131231/geneticists-push-for-databases-over-journals-as-main-source-of-information?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/12/16/2131231/geneticists-push-for-databases-over-journals-as-main-source-of-information?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/RfsuhuAsOS4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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