Spitting for science: danish high school students commit to a large-scale self-reported genetic study

TY - JOUR

T1 - Spitting for science

T2 - danish high school students commit to a large-scale self-reported genetic study

AU - Athanasiadis, Georgios

AU - Jørgensen, Frank G.

AU - Cheng, Jade Yu

AU - Kjærgaard, Peter C.

AU - Schierup, Mikkel H.

AU - Mailund, Thomas

PY - 2016/8

Y1 - 2016/8

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0161822

DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0161822

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 27571202

SN - 1932-6203

VL - 11

JO - PLoS Computational Biology

JF - PLoS Computational Biology

IS - 8

M1 - e0161822

ER -