{"id":37904,"date":"2011-02-21T01:15:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T09:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=9983"},"modified":"2011-02-21T01:15:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T09:15:01","slug":"personal-genome-in-the-public-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/21\/personal-genome-in-the-public-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal genome in the public domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"imgcapleft\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/02\/800px-Gadsden_flag.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/02\/800px-Gadsden_flag.svg_-300x199.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9985\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Image credit: Vikrum Lexicon<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/manu.sporny.org\/2011\/pd-genome-implications\/\">Manu Sporny<\/a> reflects on one week of being in the public domain in terms of personal genomics. I already pulled down his data, as has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harappadna.org\/2011\/02\/project-update\/\">Zack<\/a>. The whole post is fascinating, but this is really interesting: &#8220;I found out that it\u2019s illegal to send any of your genetic material outside of Russia to have it analyzed.&#8221; In a related vein, seen Dr. Daniel MacArthur&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/02\/when-cautious-means-useless\/\">When \u201cCautious\u201d Means \u201cUseless.\u201d<\/a> I know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.23andme.com\/\">23andMe<\/a> is a for-profit business in it to make money for its backers, but there are certainly huge social spillover effects among my set in its bringing 500,000 to 1 million markers to the masses. It&#8217;s a clear concrete case of how innovation can result in positive gains across society. I am not a knee-jerk libertarian, <b>but your genetic data is <i>your<\/i> genetic data.<\/b> Own it, analyze it, and claim it!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/8WsfWhM9ZFA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image credit: Vikrum Lexicon<br \/>\nManu Sporny reflects on one week of being in the public domain in terms of personal genomics. I already pulled down his data, as has Zack. The whole post is fascinating, but this is really interesting: &#8220;I found out &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,82,1141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-genomics","category-personal-genome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37904","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=37904"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38130,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37904\/revisions\/38130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}