NOVA scienceNOW | Personal Genome Project | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/nova/sciencenow The Personal Genome Project, spearheaded by George Church, the Director of Harvard’s Center for Computational Genetics, aims to recruit 100,000 people to offer up their DNA and personal life histories, all in an effort to further knowledge of human genetics and why we get—or don’t get—diseases.

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[Yaokus5000]

Videos like these should be more popular..

[oscard1113]

its the food we eat

[gadionson1]

wow ..

[Almond2000]

Not all people of partial or predominant African descent get sickle cell.Both parents have to carry the gene. A lot of " African Americans" also have significant amounts of White and Native American ancestry.That goes for other mixed race descended people as well( Latinos). Sickle cell is also found amongst Mediterranean peoples as well.

[suzbailey23]

@trying2bnormal: good point... there's significant sample reliability issues caused when the sample is derived from A) people who can afford internet access, and B) people who can afford to shell out a thousand bucks to participate. I'm shocked that they would make such a simple error. How disappointing!

[lipsonice10]

Mr. Lazevnick drinks Gatorade

[monkey7532678]

I am currently participating. There is no fee. Though they ask for a donation it is not required, and the amount you donate does not influence eligibility to participate.

[MrMoonshiner]

Oh man...That's the very first thing that went through my head after I watched this video. Then I started worrying about FoxDie.

[itslikeadrill]

IT'S SHADOW MOSES ALL OVER AGAIN

[link0587]

Agreed.

[trying2bnormal]

Yeah maybe I would like to get my DNA secrets made public even if it means the possibility of discrimination.

Though I went to their site as you suggested, they charge a fee of 1000 dollars. This is not a good idea since only a subset or a non-random sample of our population's DNA would be sequenced. This would constitute a biased sample and therefore the studies relying on this sample wouldn't be reliable.