Geenit tonnilla

It now costs just $1 million to sequence the 3 billion base pairs in a genome, while genotyping — which looks at only 500,000 SNPs — is a mere $1,000 .

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This winter marks the birth of a new industry: Companies will take a sample of your DNA, scan it, and tell you about your genetic future, as well as your ancestral past.
In a few years, as the price of sequencing the entire genome drops below $1,000, all 6billion points of your genetic code will be opened to scrutiny.