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A Utah hospital network is asking customers of DNA ancestry sites to donate their genetic profiles to help build a research database

(Steve Griffin | Tribune File Photo) Intermountain Medical Center in Murray. The Utah-based health care provider is building the GeneRosity Registry, linking personal genetic data donated by customers of companies such as AncestryDNA and 23andMe with Intermountain medical-history records and family health information. The nonprofit firm says the registry could become a powerful tool in disease prevention, but the project has raised privacy questions.