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IMHO this stuff is not necessary. My DNA and that of my wife will be public. The rest of my family will volunteer theirs soon. And I am looking to expand the am
by renewiltord 3y ago
IMHO this stuff is not necessary. My DNA and that of my wife will be public. The rest of my family will volunteer theirs soon. And I am looking to expand the amount of public DNA from my ethnic group.
Given sufficient time, this information will be useful for the progress of science.
In some sense, this is part of a genetic adaptive mechanism. With a sufficiently tight-band public genetic release with full health history, it is possible that future science will bias to my genes.
Perhaps some of mine will be ones people desire and others not. But they will optimize to the ones that are studied. That means my genes will live on slightly preferentially.
Which, of course, means that I should encourage everyone else to keep theirs private.
Amusing thought. But I think we will all be for the better with our genomes public. It's okay if others won't submit theirs. We will submit ours and may humanity benefit from it.