I’ve been tardy in staying on top of the complex (of course it is, otherwise why my nagging ongoing fascination?) field of personal genomic testing. Thank goodness I do regularly check Daniel MacArthur’s pitch-perfect Genetic Future blog. Wednesday’s post alerted me to two fine ‘status report’ reports: one from Mark Henderson of The Times and the other from blogger Dan Vorhaus who runs the Genomics Law Report blog. Amongst all the arising questions, the two most intriguing ones seem to be:
- Will we end up organizing and interpreting our own genetic tests or will doctors end up as the organizers, as they do with blood tests?
- Who will control the data? (Simplistically I imagine I’ll always be in the position of incontrovertibly owning my own genome test results but it seems nothing is so easy.)