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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. My parents are 100% on whatever side my sister is on, so they're saying the same thing my sister is saying. My sister thinks there's no right to privacy in this new age with DNA tests. It was a closed adoption but my parents always told my sister she was adopted and were open with her.

I don't blame my sister for wanting a second family. We have awesome parents and family, but who wouldn't want to see what their genetic mom and siblings are like? My sister wants to know everything- [b]medical questions[/b], what they look like, their family stories.

I sort of don't see this story ending well for anyone involved. [/quote]

This would be the ONLY valid reason to breach privacy in such an egregious manner. As a research scientist, I hope that genetic information can be conserved in a database for parents giving up their children for adoption, and made available to these children should they ever wish to know about their genetic burden.

We are on the cusp of the age of personalize medicine, where your personal risk of developing certain diseases will be better known and where you will be able to protect yourself against many of them simply by changing your lifestyle or taking preventative treatment. Say you have DNA testing done, and the doctor tells you as a child that your risk of colon cancer is high. You could stop eating red meat and other inflammatory foods and lower your risk of colon cancer significantly, instead of eating a typical diet and finding out you have colon cancer at 40.

My cousin has a rare genetic disease where she can't process copper, and started having severe neurological symptoms in her late teens which completely derailed her college years. Had this been tested for and caught early on, she would never have had to suffer any symptoms, since there are medications and diet changes to correct this.

In the future, adopted children with no family health history will be at a marked health disadvantage. [/quote]

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