Cheap DNA Sequencing: Whats in it for You?

Your DNA can reveal more about your body -- and what the future has in store for it -- than a stethoscope and a tongue depressor ever could.

Thanks to the Human Genome Project, which identified all the genes in the human DNA, scientists better understand how our biological makeup affects our health. This milestone kick-started the commercialization of DNA sequencing, which refers to determining the exact order of the bases in a strand of DNA. Five years from now, the process may be as simple as picking up a kit at your local pharmacy, similar to a pregnancy test.

"It's just a question of time," says Daniel MacArthur, a genomics researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital. "Right now i…
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