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by Aser 2626 days ago
The cost will come down. 20 years ago, the cost of sequencing one person's genome was over $100 million. Today it's $1000.
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Not disagreeing with you but can you get a full genome for $1K? I assumed that was only partial.
Do you need a full genome? If a person has symptoms the doctor doesn't need a full genome sequence, just enough to verify that it is the/a sequence the treatment can fix. The cheaper the better, accuracy is important but but quantity outside the sequence in question is not useful.
Not if the government/insurance gets involved.