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22/02/11 15:13 Filed in: GenomeWeb Daily Scan
Submitted by S. Pelech - Kinexus on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 15:13.
The primary reasons why executives with a stake in the commercialization of the human genome are willing to have their genome sequences revealed to the broad research community are because it may promote their business, they really have nothing to loose, and there is a slight possibility to personally benefit with researchers focused on their individual genomes. However, the reality is that without a real understanding of what the differences in probably over 50 million single nucleotide polymorphisms and other types of mutations in the human genome actually mean, the individual genome sequence data is pretty useless. Now if these executives and some prominent scientists are willing to disclose their full medical, life and family histories coupled with a willingness to subject themselves to a wide barrage of medical tests and publicly disclose the results, this might actually be useful in helping to make some sense of our genetic differences. Sadly though, I don't think that this is going to happen any time soon.
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The primary reasons why executives with a stake in the commercialization of the human genome are willing to have their genome sequences revealed to the broad research community are because it may promote their business, they really have nothing to loose, and there is a slight possibility to personally benefit with researchers focused on their individual genomes. However, the reality is that without a real understanding of what the differences in probably over 50 million single nucleotide polymorphisms and other types of mutations in the human genome actually mean, the individual genome sequence data is pretty useless. Now if these executives and some prominent scientists are willing to disclose their full medical, life and family histories coupled with a willingness to subject themselves to a wide barrage of medical tests and publicly disclose the results, this might actually be useful in helping to make some sense of our genetic differences. Sadly though, I don't think that this is going to happen any time soon.
Link to the original blog post.