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From: "Bettie Rehling" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] reporting of results
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:46:19 -0600
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Sadly, it looks like there is competition to obtain patents, and profit from
DNA research. Commercial labs contribute to our knowledge base..but have to
eventually show a profit. They protect their interests.

I suspect it will take federal legislation to protect our rights to our own
DNA code...but it will stifle research. So what is the answer?? We are in
uncharted waters..


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To: <>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] reporting of results


> In reply to your commment re restrictive DNA reporting, I want to say that
> I too, have been some troubled by non-standard reporting. It is NOT a good
> thing to have ANY kind of lab-imposed limits upon reporting, and
non-standard
> reporting appears to me an excellent euphemism for "partial reporting".
>
> AND.......I have just spent the last hour drafting what I hope was a lucid
> reply to one of the Genealogy Lists to which I belong in re Genealogy
> INFORMATION (names, dates etc., never mind the DNA!) being restricted! It
> seems there is a group of "researchers" who believe that information
should
> be restricted and that information dealing with who we are and where we
came
> from belongs to someone ELSE!
> I have a REAL HUGE problem with this.
>
> I understand the difficulties inherent in DNA sequencing and reporting,
which
> of necessity must employ laboratories and consequently moves us into such
> areas as patenting etc. This is NOT to say I agree. However, when the
very
> essece (DNA) of a people is being unlocked and as a result, providing us
with
> MORE information, I cannot concieve of why genealogists should become more
> restrictive amd protective of information which has exisited all along!
>
> Linda Chesson
>
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