Purchase Your Personal Gene Map

dstone writes "Craig Venter, Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2000 has a new hobby: collecting rich people's DNA. Millionaires are lining up to buy their personal gene maps for the cool price of USD$621,500. The process takes a week and you get some insight into your genetic mutations that may correlate with illnesses, cancers, Alzeimer's, etc. Venter is a high profile character in the genetic sequencing scene and the Human Genome Project. More info on him may be found here(1) , here(2), and here(3) . If you had the pocket change, would you give this man your business?"

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"MAPS TO CELEBRITIES GENES.....$2.00"

[Thatto]

"Ever wonder which hollywood stars and starlets share common sequences?" Oprah's grandmother's dirty little secret!" "THE RICH AND POWERFUL: Genetically Inclined?"

no thanks

Re:Well.

[delta407]

How long before we're doing this for unborn fetuses

Yeah, but how many unborn fetuses have six hundred thousand dollars?

Re:Anybody want to venture a guess

[micromoog]

I wouldn't worry if I were you.

Venter's DNA

[morcheeba]

Craig's company Celera was mapping a suposedly anonymous genome, but then craig admitted it was his dna. As a Celera shareholder, I wonder if that qualifies as a $600k perk that he got.