Comments on: Get Your Personal Genome Decoded Here

By: Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD

Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:46:19 +0000

Geez. I’m gone for a few days and here you guys are groveling for free tests. LOL

By: ramunas

ramunas — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:33:55 +0000

i think free promotional test for these start-ups would be the best add and independent assessment of a service.

By: Barry Starr

Barry Starr — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:35:44 +0000

I like the idea of getting my testing for free. At this point in genetic testing, I am not sure the tests are worth any more than that anyway…

By: NA

NA — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:33:30 +0000

So let’s see if we got this straight. These companies are offering to have your genome sequenced for a high price but there are no trained professionals to interpret that information to the costumer? What is the difference between a blue print of ones genome and a blue print of a house that is not built? If a person doesnâ€™t know how to build a house, then a blue print of their house is useless. If a person doesnâ€™t know how to read their genetic information, then having a copy of their genome sequence is useless. For example, the customer notices that they are heterozygous for a gene that has been shown to have a correlation in the development of a disease. So the costumer thinks, am I going to get this disease or not? If the disease has a mendelian inheritance, MAYBE. If the disease is a complex disease, MAYBE.

By: StevenMurphy MD

StevenMurphy MD — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:06:08 +0000

Sounds like an interesting experiment. At least we could take it for what it is. A neat technology with limited usefulness.
-Steve
http://www.thegenesherpa.blogspot.com

By: ramunas

ramunas — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:41:16 +0000

I think these companies (or at least deCODE) should offer its services FOR FREE TO ALL MEMBERS OF DNA NETWORKS. That would be cool. Let’s ask for that?