Spitting for Science: Danish High School Students Commit to a Large-Scale Self-Reported Genetic Study

Scientific outreach delivers science to the people. But it can also deliver people to the science. In this work, we report our experience from a large-scale public engagement project promoting genomic literacy among Danish high school students with the additional benefit of collecting data for study...

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Autores principales: Athanasiadis, Georgios, Jørgensen, Frank G., Cheng, Jade Y., Kjærgaard, Peter C., Schierup, Mikkel H., Mailund, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5003382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27571202
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161822
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author Athanasiadis, Georgios
Jørgensen, Frank G.
Cheng, Jade Y.
Kjærgaard, Peter C.
Schierup, Mikkel H.
Mailund, Thomas
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description Scientific outreach delivers science to the people. But it can also deliver people to the science. In this work, we report our experience from a large-scale public engagement project promoting genomic literacy among Danish high school students with the additional benefit of collecting data for studying the genetic makeup of the Danish population. Not only did we confirm that students have a great interest in their genetic past, but we were also gratified to see that, with the right motivation, adolescents can provide high-quality data for genetic studies.
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spelling pubmed-50033822016-09-12 Spitting for Science: Danish High School Students Commit to a Large-Scale Self-Reported Genetic Study Athanasiadis, Georgios Jørgensen, Frank G. Cheng, Jade Y. Kjærgaard, Peter C. Schierup, Mikkel H. Mailund, Thomas PLoS One Research Article Scientific outreach delivers science to the people. But it can also deliver people to the science. In this work, we report our experience from a large-scale public engagement project promoting genomic literacy among Danish high school students with the additional benefit of collecting data for studying the genetic makeup of the Danish population. Not only did we confirm that students have a great interest in their genetic past, but we were also gratified to see that, with the right motivation, adolescents can provide high-quality data for genetic studies. Public Library of Science 2016-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5003382/ /pubmed/27571202 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161822 Text en © 2016 Athanasiadis et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Spitting for Science: Danish High School Students Commit to a Large-Scale Self-Reported Genetic Study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5003382/
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