The context here is completely medical, it seems, but there are other issues as well: Imagine an database where you could voluntarily, anonymously upload your

The context here is completely medical, it seems, but there are other issues as well: Imagine an database where you could voluntarily, anonymously upload your genome to find relatives, lost parent-child connections, etc. I think this is also grounds for allowing people to have control of their genome and it doesn't require medical knowledge -- just a 3rd party company who can use a well-known algorithm (I'm assuming there is one) to say how closely you match someone else and what this likely means (same lineage, sibling, parent, etc). Related to this, I really wonder what life is going to be like in this new world we're heading into where there is going to a large increase in the number of children and parents who find out that the children aren't the offspring of their live-in father. There are a lot of social implications of this.