Personal Genome Project: scientists discover their DNA for the whole world
With a shocking disregard for their own privacy, at least 10 people have already agreed to put their own DNA into open access for decryption and analysis. They are scientists and computer scientists from Harvard, Duke and other American universities. All of them sent a piece of their skin and agreed to an open publication of the analysis data.
These are the conditions of the new project Personal Genome Project , under which it is planned to attract at least 100,000 people to similar actions and to create a huge open base of human genotypes. It is assumed that the creation of such a base will accelerate the development of new drugs and the research work of geneticists. Actually, everyone in the scientific community agrees with this fact: the more such information will be in the clear, the faster the research will go.
DNA testing can actually give a person a huge amount of information about his own health (a person can learn about his susceptibility to obesity, alcoholism, cancer, Alzheimer's disease and hundreds of other diseases), and in some cases even save his life. For example, recently Sergey Brin (the founder of Google) did an analysis and now knows that he faces a fatal disease. At the very least, he has a couple of decades to prepare.
And even after analyzing and publishing your genotype, insurance will become more expensive for you, they may not be hired due to birth defects of DNA (although such discrimination is prohibited by law), and scandals can happen in families due to the DNA mismatch between fathers and children - but after all, is it really worth being afraid of such a “breach of privacy”? Still, the pros outweigh the cons, and for science it is useful.
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Register for the project here .
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These are the conditions of the new project Personal Genome Project , under which it is planned to attract at least 100,000 people to similar actions and to create a huge open base of human genotypes. It is assumed that the creation of such a base will accelerate the development of new drugs and the research work of geneticists. Actually, everyone in the scientific community agrees with this fact: the more such information will be in the clear, the faster the research will go.
DNA testing can actually give a person a huge amount of information about his own health (a person can learn about his susceptibility to obesity, alcoholism, cancer, Alzheimer's disease and hundreds of other diseases), and in some cases even save his life. For example, recently Sergey Brin (the founder of Google) did an analysis and now knows that he faces a fatal disease. At the very least, he has a couple of decades to prepare.
And even after analyzing and publishing your genotype, insurance will become more expensive for you, they may not be hired due to birth defects of DNA (although such discrimination is prohibited by law), and scandals can happen in families due to the DNA mismatch between fathers and children - but after all, is it really worth being afraid of such a “breach of privacy”? Still, the pros outweigh the cons, and for science it is useful.
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Register for the project here .
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/42853/
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