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I think i have the right to do anything i want with my genome, including making it public. It's my genome ffs, it's me. If i don't have this right with my genom

• Ao7bei3s 9y ago
  Except it really isn't entirely your own genome. You share most of it with your relatives, and to lesser extents, the rest of us and all other beings. Since it's a shared resource, they should have a say. Can you follow the argument if we flip it around? Your right to do anything you want should include not making it public. Others publishing "theirs" would mean publishing yours, whether you want it or not.
  • PunchTornado 9y ago
    It is entirely my genome. Over 99.9% of the genome is identical to every human being. And that genome is made public (the reference genome) and updated regularly as we understand more about the DNA. Even identical twins don't have the same DNA. So it's not like I make public another person's DNA.
• akvadrako 9y ago
  Of course - this is total bullshit - trying to tell people what they can do with their own dna.
• patall 9y ago
  Sorry but no, just because something is yours it does not mean you can do with it whatever you want (I understand that this is a totally non-libertarian view). If you find uranium on your plot of land, you also cannot sell it to whoever you want. And the human genome is similarly seen as something protected, just look at how CRISPR experiments on human embryos are highly controversial.
  • bpicolo 9y ago
    > And the human genome is similarly seen as something protected It's not, I can publish/sell/do whatever I want with any of my genomic data I have desire to