It is interesting to know, the technologies are now enabling us to sequence up our genome and understand our own genetic information from our 23 paired chromosome. However, to read trillions of copies of genome in a single human body is expensive. It may simply cost a million USD to do that. 23andMe, a private held company in California is currently working into this, so that the cost can be bring down to USD1000 with advance sequencing technologies. You can see an example on James Watson (co-discovers of DNA's double helix structure) personal genome's structure on this website: http://jimwatsonsequence.cshl.edu/cgi-perl/gbrowse/jwsequence/
I read about this in the NewScientist Magazine. Just wonder if they can sucessfully bring down the genome screening price to an affordable one, and also provide the information hide inside the DNA, there will be a new business market then. I mean, it is no point just get knowing the sequence and you can do nothing to change anything, rite?
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