Last blog I talked about the current revolution in DNA sequencing. Within the next five years you'll probably be able to get all 6 billion letters of your DNA on a CD to look over at your leisure.
Someone who read the blog asked me if I would have my DNA sequenced for 1000 dollars. My answer is that I most likely would. Even though I probably shouldn't.
Getting all of my DNA at this stage of the game is a bit like Adam in the Garden of Eden. I know I shouldn't eat that apple so I can stay in the bliss of ignorance. But I'd still take a bite.
I know I would because I've already started down that path. We thought about offering visitors to The Tech the chance to have their MC1R gene sequenced. This would be a fun way to learn about genes and the visitor would be able to figure out if they could have red haired kids or not (among other things).
As a beta test, I had my whole family done. This was very useful in figuring out how to do the sequencing properly. And it was so cool to see the results.