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Stanford, U.C. Berkeley Offer Students Genetic Testing

Posted by timothy on from the umich-law-school-watch-out dept.

cappp writes with this snippet from Scientific American: "This week Berkeley will mail saliva sample kits to every incoming freshman and transfer student. Students can choose to use the kits to submit their DNA for genetic analysis, as part of an orientation program on the topic of personalized medicine. But U.C. Berkeley isn't the only university offering its students genetic testing. Stanford University's summer session started two weeks ago, including a class on personal genomics that gives medical and graduate students the chance to sequence their genotypes and study the results."

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  1. Have some fun with this! by decipher_saint · · Score: 4, Funny

    Every student sample dog saliva!!

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    1. Re:Have some fun with this! by butterflysrage · · Score: 3, Funny

      "It says here you are predisposed to sniffing your own butt?"

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    2. Re:Have some fun with this! by decipher_saint · · Score: 2, Funny

      The good news is you have a healthy shiny coat, the bad news... worms.

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    3. Re:Have some fun with this! by chichilalescu · · Score: 3, Funny

      you're being silly.
      what they should do is sample as many species as possible, except for human. I wonder if the test will say "species unknown" or "many many animals".

      or: human DNA combined with ape DNA. "well, to tell you the truth, I'm the first one in my family to go to college and walk fully upright".

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  2. How long until it's part of admissions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    We'll need your SAT scores, two letters of recommendation, and a DNA sample.

  3. It's a drug-- I mean, throat culture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Of course U.C. Berkeley would offer incoming students a Salvia sample kit.

  4. that's what college is for by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    submitting dna samples

    usually to your fellow students

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    1. Re:that's what college is for by Itninja · · Score: 4, Funny

      And sometimes to the opposite sex.

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  5. Re:to lazy to create account by nopainogain · · Score: 3, Funny

    of course when they see 94 chromosomes, they'll pick up on it right away, but a Stanford student would already know that.

  6. Re:UC Berkeley data breech - be advised by natehoy · · Score: 3, Funny

    were victims of a data breech

    They were victims of data coming out of a system backward? Or did you mean they were victims of a pair of short pants made out of data?

    Either way, sounds nasty.

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  7. Re:Your own kit by natehoy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Which eventually will be rolled into a new Google service called "G-nome". :)

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  8. Re:Your own kit by AndersOSU · · Score: 2, Funny

    You don't think I'm sending those p3nis enlargement emails to everyone, do you?