Nasty development in medical privacy

[Ken Brown]

Ian BROWN wrote:

> Will we have to wait 20+ years until medical researchers understand the genome
> enough to be able to pull out the specific sequences needed and junk the rest
> in order to try and reduce identification?


Nope because (a) the sequences we need for medical purposes  will still
be enough to identify and (b) it won't be medical researchers who
understand it, it will be biologists :-)

Ken