Game7,
The completion of the 100K genome sequences sounds to me like a great achievement on its face but my extraordinarily divergent view is that there is enormous potential for abuse.
For example, the first use that comes to mind is for cancer but cancers are even more individual than fingerprints and when you have the atrocities of spurious races - for instance the original scientific categorization of a caucasoid race had a far greater and darker-skin population outside Europe's geographic boundaries than inside. The ignorant universal use of such features as pigmentation used for fully imaginary races has a heavy cost in life and morbidity. [Can even the divines of the FDA and CDC and various other experts think the imaginary "African-American" NBA players have more in common with the Pygmies of Africa than their non-AA teammates or - even worse - the cheerleaders?]
All the blather aside, I think it can lead to better medicine as genomics progressively replaces the racism of regulators and legislators.
Best, Terry
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