About the Authors

Paul Oldham

poldham@mac.com

Affiliations ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen), Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), United Nations University, Yokohama, Japan

Stephen Hall

Affiliation ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen), Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Geoff Burton

Affiliation Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), United Nations University, Yokohama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PDO. Performed the experiments: PDO SH. Analyzed the data: PDO SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PDO SH. Wrote the paper: PDO GB. Contributed to the policy analysis in the paper and finalisation of the manuscript: GB.