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by throwup238 848 days ago
The genetic tests were already down to $1,000 retail per parent a decade ago at the company I worked at and it tested for hundreds of hereditary diseases. Those base tests are even cheaper now thanks to microarrays and the mid/high end has moved up to full genome sequencing.

It won't be long before it's dirt cheap and standard in most countries, especially as the Affymetrix/Illumina patents expire and the genechips get commoditized.