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Purchase Your Personal Gene Map

Posted by timothy on from the priceless dept.

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?"

8 of 266 comments (clear)

  1. Yes or No: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you braced for sudden unlubed anal penetration? (y/n)

  2. MOD PARENT UP INSIGHTFUL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashbots always assume the worst of everything. We're all on crack. Obviously.

  3. Your mamma by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *cough* Macs *cough*

  4. Bases? by threephaseboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All your bases are belong to us!
    -- Gov't

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  5. Re:Well. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And I read that it isn't uncommon for Indians to kill female infants and bury them in the backyard... then try again for a boy

  6. And the business plan is... by Kjella · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    1. Make rich people pay for their own gene map
    2. Find statistic corrolations from those maps to diseases, disabilities or lifespan
    3. Profit

    Uhh wait.... shouldn't there be a ??? in there somewhere?

    Kjella

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  7. Re:Anybody want to venture a guess by micromoog · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I thought it was funny. But I don't have any mod points.

  8. Cheaper already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm surprised no-one has posted this yet (or hasn't anyone seen it yet?), get it for $1000 in 24 hrs:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/227609 5. stm