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Getting your own Genome

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<strong><font size="4">You can get the whole genetic map and sequences of you. It means that you can store nearly everything about your genetic information in a PC.</font></strong><br />
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<font color="#ff0000" size="3"><strong>However, the price for now it too high.By 2012, the price will go down to around $1,000 USD.</strong></font><br />
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<strong>The steps are:</strong><br />
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1) Take small amount of blood from your body<br />
2) Do sequencing after amplifying the amount of genetic material (i.e., your genome parts)<br />
3) Assemble all the genetic parts of your genome&nbsp;<br />4) Store the information in such a way that bioinformaists can analyze hundreds of aspects of your genome.<br />5) Applying bioinformatics software to find interesting things such as relatedness, geneology, disease susceptability, and visualizing the whole genome.<br />6) Finding critical information on<br /><br />
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