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Really important comment! Is having a bad recessive a “pre-existing condition”? Or do genotypes form already legally protected classes? Clearly we need good l
by clbrmbr 3y ago
Really important comment!
Is having a bad recessive a “pre-existing condition”? Or do genotypes form already legally protected classes?
Clearly we need good lawyers here, or careful regulation, or public medical insurance.
I hope it doesn’t go the way of car insurance.
- 0x00_NULL 3y agoWhile this is an interesting idea, no doubt, epigenetics casts major doubt on whether knowing the DNA expression at a particular time is diagnostically useful. Sure. There are some conditions that are purely genetic, but many genes can be switched on and off depending on the environment - or even recoded in the replication process. DNA isn’t as static as we once thought and knowing a person’s DNA is not quite as useful as we imagined. This isn’t as big of a deal as we imagined. It’s going to take some incredible processing to uncover causal patterns, and a huge amount of experimentation to determine whether they are stable against epigenetic changes. In my opinion, this is quite exciting.