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A FEW MONTHS AGO, I swabbed the inside of my cheek, put the swab in a prepaid envelope and mailed it off to myDNA, a genetics company in Melbourne. There, a team extracted and analysed my genes to answer a pressing question: how can I  make exercise more effective?

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing

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