Overview: Division of Psychological Medicine and Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK.Includes supplementary material: “Your genome is an email attachment” What a difference a few years can make? In 2001, to a global fanfare, the completion of the frst draft sequence of the human genome was announced. This had been a Herculean effort, involving thousands of researchers and millions of dollars. Today, a project to re-sequence 1,000 genomes is well underway, and within a year or two, your own “personal genome” is likely t
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