Wouldn't it have been less expensive to cut the nose off of the younger twin at birth?
Wouldn't it have been less expensive to cut the nose off of the younger twin at birth?
I am the younger identical twin, so no disfigurements for me, thank you.
My brother actually could afford this test - not sure why we would take it, though. His personality and behavior is much different than my own - that is typically the quickest discriminator for those who know us.
Notwithstanding, I have been mistaken for my brother often, even as the years pass. I actually find it funny, and not something to take seriously
They can't do the DNA test every time, so when it is time to be executed, send the one who is immune to the killing drugs, then when they try to do it a second time, send the one who cannot be electrocuted.
Also not true.
The biggest thing will be insurance increasing the price for no sustainable reason. We can get clinical level reads for the biggest gene targets (neurodegenerative diseases, Down's syndrome, classic early life deficiencies) for a few hundred all together. The technology is essentially the same between the clinic and the lab (a good one, anyway) for these. For the mt genome at 17kb which has incredibly low levels of low transcribed regions or repetitive sequences I'd wager the actual cost per person would be less than $10,000 billed to insurance. That's roughly the cost to sequence the entire genome today at clinical level reads so I highly doubt >10M basepairs costs less than 17kbp.
Though yeah it's definitely a good time to be a thermo exec.
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