Is having a bad recessive a “pre-existing condition”? Or do genotypes form already legally protected classes?
Clearly we need good lawyers here, or careful regulation, or public medical insurance.
I hope it doesn’t go the way of car insurance.
Sure. There are some conditions that are purely genetic, but many genes can be switched on and off depending on the environment - or even recoded in the replication process. DNA isn’t as static as we once thought and knowing a person’s DNA is not quite as useful as we imagined.
This isn’t as big of a deal as we imagined. It’s going to take some incredible processing to uncover causal patterns, and a huge amount of experimentation to determine whether they are stable against epigenetic changes. In my opinion, this is quite exciting.