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The Center for Genetics and Society, a nonprofit group based in Berkeley, is calling for the University of California, Berkeley, to suspend a project in which freshmen and transfer students will be asked to provide samples of their DNA for analysis. Jesse Reynolds, a policy analyst at the center, said that direct-to-consumer genetic tests are not ready for mass consumption, providing information that is best handled with a doctor or genetic counselor. The university’s program, he said, would normalize the use of direct-to-consumer tests.