December 30, 2008
Cheap genome
screening is becoming widely available. Which means that if
political activists or journalists get their hands on the DNA of
someone like President-elect Barack Obama, they could misrepresent
or misinterpret his genetic risk information. But as Science
Correspondent Ronald Bailey writes, as more Americans learn to
interpret genetic risk information, it becomes increasingly
unlikely that such information will be abused.
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