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The Pitfalls of Sequencing

Jul 02, 2007

There are three potential solutions to the insurance fears raised by individual genomic sequencing, says Jason Bobe at the Personal Genome. Patient advocates want everyone to be sequenced and protected by law, free-market purists don't care if people are tested or not but they do not want the rules to change, and ignotarians advise people not to be tested to relieve them of the obligation to tell their insurance company the results, explains Bobe.

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