{"id":100776,"date":"2017-11-13T18:42:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T02:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/?p=190007"},"modified":"2017-11-13T18:42:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T02:42:13","slug":"my-son-in-the-genetics-history-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/13\/my-son-in-the-genetics-history-books\/","title":{"rendered":"My son in the genetics history books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B01KE61LO8\/geneexpressio-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-190008\" src=\"http:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dnastoryofagenetic.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>Just saw today that my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/527936\/for-one-baby-life-begins-with-genome-revealed\/\">son&#8217;s prenatal sequencing<\/a> was mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B01KE61LO8\/geneexpressio-20\">DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The ethics of sequencing a presumably health fetus will be debated for years to come. But the day of doing is already here. Razib Khan, a thirty-something graduate student and blogger, decided to sequence his <strong>first child&#8217;s<\/strong> genome while his wife was still pregnant. Although one instance of whole-genome sequencing in utero was reported in the <i>New England Journal of Medicine<\/i> in 2012, that had been done to supplement a positive cytogenetic result&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I want to correct the record for future printings: <b>my first son was my second child.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F11%2F13%2Fmy-son-in-the-genetics-history-books%2F&amp;linkname=My%20son%20in%20the%20genetics%20history%20books\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F11%2F13%2Fmy-son-in-the-genetics-history-books%2F&amp;linkname=My%20son%20in%20the%20genetics%20history%20books\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plus\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/google_plus?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F11%2F13%2Fmy-son-in-the-genetics-history-books%2F&amp;linkname=My%20son%20in%20the%20genetics%20history%20books\" title=\"Google+\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F11%2F13%2Fmy-son-in-the-genetics-history-books%2F&amp;title=My%20son%20in%20the%20genetics%20history%20books\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/2017\/11\/13\/my-son-in-the-genetics-history-books\/\" data-a2a-title=\"My son in the genetics history books\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw today that my son&rsquo;s prenatal sequencing was mentioned in DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution: The ethics of sequencing a presumably health fetus will be debated for years to come. But the day of doing is already here. Razib Khan, a thirty-something graduate student and blogger, decided to sequence his first child&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-t-c-personal-genomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100781,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100776\/revisions\/100781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}