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Re:A new era of personalised medicine: or how I got myself s... by hentrep on Thursday May 13, 2021 @07:35PM (#27148843)
Is data privacy not a valid reason?
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Re:A new era of personalised medicine: or how I got myself s... by whatshisface on Thursday May 13, 2021 @07:37PM (#27148862)
A lot of people would be willing for sequences to exist if they were treated like the medical records they are, and not as a startup's fungible data asset.
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Re:A new era of personalised medicine: or how I got myself s... by cblconfederate on Thursday May 13, 2021 @07:58PM (#27149030)
Are people's medical records private?
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Re:A new era of personalised medicine: or how I got myself s... by croes on Thursday May 13, 2021 @08:47PM (#27149331)
Yes
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Re:A new era of personalised medicine: or how I got myself s... by cblconfederate on Thursday May 13, 2021 @08:55PM (#27149387)
Then DNA can be private too

(To be clear here in europe medical records are held by healthcare services, but they are protected. They are not private property tho)

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