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You assume that the uses of DNA won’t ever be expanded in the future to do other things than identify murderers and rapists. Short sighted.

24 posted on 03/26/2009 12:34:43 PM PDT by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)

Perhaps if they got ahold of the original blood sample and reanalyzed the DNA they could do more than just ID me or a likely relation.

What they have on me in the federal CODIS databank is the number of repeats I have for 13 different short terminal repeat sequences (diploid). So all they have are 26 numbers that form a unique designator that identifies me.

What exactly do you foresee people doing with my DNA repeat numbers other than for purposes of identification?

What exactly do you foresee people doing with my entire genome, assuming anybody went through the time and expense to amplify and sequence it?

26 posted on 03/26/2009 12:47:57 PM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")

To: rednesss; allmendream

You assume that the uses of DNA won’t ever be expanded in the future to do other things than identify murderers and rapists. Short sighted.

Naive.

59 posted on 03/26/2009 7:36:45 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)

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