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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is anyone concerned about having your DNA public - and privacy elements?  [/quote]

What can they really do with it? It's not like they can clone you.[/quote]
The problem is if you show a genetic predisposition to a health condition such as heart disease, diabetes, or cancer. How do you know that someone isn't keeping a database that matches your name to those conditions? The next time you sign up for health insurance or life insurance, you are denied because they found you linked to potential health problems in the future. Another issue might be that your DNA winds up in crime databases, even though you've never committed a crime. One day, your name pops up in connection to a crime. Perhaps it's because you committed the crime, or perhaps someone made a small error, or perhaps that one in a million chance that your DNA is a near match to someone else. That is the future that some people fear.[/quote] I thought the whole point of the obamacare was to guarantee everyone had to have access to health insurance whether they wanted it or not? No more denying people for pre-existing conditions. And the crime scene thing seems pretty far fetched for a government who has multiple agencies that don't share data. I think that's wishful thinking given the red tape and overall bureaucratic red tape the government inflicts upon us all. [/quote]

A.It is illegal to use information to deny insurance or coverage. Period.
B. These testing kits don't completely sequence your DNA-those are the very expensive kits. It uses segments.
C. Your info is safe in the way that your medical info is safe- whether it actually is or not. However, you really have no control over how things are hacked- your info is already out there.[/quote]

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