Purchase Your Personal Gene Map

Posted by timothy on Monday September 23, 2002 @01:43PM 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?"

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And the business plan is... by Kjella · 2002-09-23 22:42 · 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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Re:Anybody want to venture a guess by micromoog · 2002-09-24 00:33 · Score: 1, Offtopic

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