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		darkmighty on Nov 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 23andMe Is Terrifying, But Not for the Reasons the... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_genome_sequencing The page cites only 69 people so far had it fully sequenced, and it cost about $100k a few years ago

orionsbelt on Nov 28, 2013 [–]

That figure is only for publicly available sequences. The cost is now under $5k, and I'm sure thousands, if not tens of thousands, have had it done. (Including me!)

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