With the spread of recreational genotyping,…more and more Americans have learned some of what their DNA can tell them about their [ancestry]…and their future, such as their risk for diseases like Alzheimer’s.
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What does all this have to do with dating and mating? Well, now that a computer app can take the raw data of our [genome] and spit out a single number…that predicts…someone’s height or risk for cognitive decline…[Wouldn’t] you like to know whether the person who just proposed to you is a walking genetic time bomb?
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Rather than waiting for CRISPR to mature as a technology and then be refined for simultaneous use in thousands of locations in our chromosomes, it is much more likely that potential parents will merely screen their fertilized embryos to pick the “best” of the lot for implantation—whatever “best” means to that particular couple.
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