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From: "Peter J. Roberts" <>
Subject: [DNA] Some thoughts about the near future
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 19:00:18 -0800 (PST)


Dear Dean,

George Church's prediction is way beyond of my hopes.
Thanks for sharing it. I've personally asked over 60
people interested in genealogy to anonymously join a
surname DNA project. I've only had about five takers.
I've offered free tests to about ten others from
particular lines (no takers). It looks to me like many
more people still want computers;-)

Regards, Peter

>>>>>>>>>>From: "Dean McGee" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] Some thoughts about the near future
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:38:38 -0500
In-Reply-To:
<<>>


> From: Peter J. Roberts [mailto:]
> I would like to predict that within the next decade
we
> will be able to order affordable SNP tests that will
> determine which sub clad of our haplogroup we belong

Your message reminded me of an article someone posted
on this list a
couple of months ago. This article quotes Harvard
geneticist George
Church:

http://www.harvardmag.com/on-line/010453.html

<quote>
"I am convinced that we will want our personal genome
possibly more than
we want a personal computer," Church says. Although
obtaining such
information is extremely expensive at present, he
anticipates that "the
same kind of people who pay to go into space" will
soon be having their
genetic code deciphered. As for making personal
genomes as affordable as
personal computers, he says, "I don't know what year
that will be, but
it will probably happen so fast that people will be
amazed."
</quote>

When he says it will "happen so fast that people will
be amazed", I
believe him.

-Dean McGee



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