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Is It Really Only $1,000 to Sequence a Genome?

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Technological improvements have dramatically lowered the cost of reading all your DNA, though most people still don’t have an incentive to have it done.

It cost $2.7 billion to sequence the first human genome, which was completed in 2003. But even then scientists talked about it someday being possible to do it for $1,000, since that could make it practical to read out all your DNA for some routine medical care, the way MRI or CT scans are used now.


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