China’s effort to collect its people’s DNA concerns scientists

Posted by nikolasavic on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @01:55PM
from the nature.com dept.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01984-4

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Re:China’s effort to collect its people’s DNA concerns scien... by mytailorisrich on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @02:06PM (#23762166)

> Scientists and human-rights activists say a genetic database containing information about people without a criminal history is unprecedented. “This is really unique. No other country is doing it,”

Maybe unique at that scale, but I believe that the genome of 20% of Iceland's population has been fully sequenced (60k fully sequenced, 180k partially sequenced, population 300k)

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