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Harvard Medical School professor George M. Church foresees a future in which the average individual can not only get his or her genetic code sequenced at an affordable cost, but also use this information to create a personal risk profile for common diseases...
...head of the Personal Genome Project (PGP), Church plans to spend $1 billion to decode the DNA of 100,000 people in hopes of shedding light on the mysteries of the human genome...
...Genomics is a new idea,” said Church, a Harvard Ph.D. whose Web site features the letter he received when he failed out of Duke’s doctoral program in the 1970s. “Like the PC, it’s not obvious at first that anyone would want one. It’s like, ‘Hey, we’ve already got one genome, why do we need more...
...Church hopes that with time, people will recognize the benefits of having their personal genome sequenced...
...Everybody has a fax machine, but no one wants to [give] the number out,” Church said. “There’s a lot of stuff people aren’t used to sharing, so you have to start with people who are really ready...