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Re:Putting 500k People's DNA Online by Ao7bei3s on Saturday February 10, 2018 @06:11PM (#16350181)
Except it really isn't entirely your own genome. You share most of it with your relatives, and to lesser extents, the rest of us and all other beings. Since it's a shared resource, they should have a say.

Can you follow the argument if we flip it around? Your right to do anything you want should include not making it public. Others publishing "theirs" would mean publishing yours, whether you want it or not.

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Re:Putting 500k People's DNA Online by PunchTornado on Sunday February 11, 2018 @08:04AM (#16352511)
It is entirely my genome.

Over 99.9% of the genome is identical to every human being. And that genome is made public (the reference genome) and updated regularly as we understand more about the DNA.

Even identical twins don't have the same DNA. So it's not like I make public another person's DNA.

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