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It's ridiculous to be stingy with your DNA information. You're dropping that stuff all over any sofa you sit on. It's not you (any more than your twin is you) a
by JulianMorrison 10y ago
It's ridiculous to be stingy with your DNA information. You're dropping that stuff all over any sofa you sit on. It's not you (any more than your twin is you) and it's not yours in any proprietorial sense, it's just data. Chill and let the nice scientists study it.
So far as I'm concerned, if they can use my information to help study medical stuff, it's entirely cool by me.
- jomamaxx 10y agoThat's great, but it's your choice. Also - that my DNA is on my sofa does not mean it's being published, sold, and used for purposes beyond my expectations.
- ramblerman 10y agoI can somewhat understand the privacy implications, but if your DNA samples are anonymous and hold a cure to cancer or some other disease it belongs to humanity, imo.
- eggie 10y agoYou're forgetting the other point that the poster made, that your DNA is no more yours than your grandparents', or cousins, or any other ancestor or distant relative that shares bits of their genome with you. By the way, we are all related, and virtually everything in you is not unique. There are maybe 50-100 point mutations out of 6 billion that are unique to you. And anyway, what's the point of your genome unless you can compare it to others. So, share already. We're all just remixes of each other.
- jomamaxx 10y ago"You're forgetting the other point that the poster made, that your DNA is no more yours than your grandparents', or cousins, or any other ancestor or distant relative that shares bits of their genome with you." No, my DNA is distinct from theirs, and it's 'mine'. :) Those 50-100 points identify me, uniquely.
- JulianMorrison 10y agoThey identify you and all your clones and twins, who are separate people. Which you may currently have none of, but that might not continue to be so.