All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yay, Gattaca.

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  • watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Came here to say this.

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• Bigfish@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sure this won’t be abused by law enforcement. Nope.

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  • Oneser@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Post-birth screening is already very widely utilised in most western countries.

    E.g.

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  • snaprails@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Of course not, the rozzers won’t be able to afford to buy it from Palantir.

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Already widely used in the western world, glad we’re catching up. This will save lives and reduce the misery of kids silently suffering without proper support.

  Goes without saying, but this data should remain with the NHS.

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  • drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Already widely used in the western world

    Really?

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    • happydoors@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Minnesota, here. New parent. Can confirm! The full on DNA test is optional. Parents can make informed decisions and prepare for new lifestyles of supporting a kid that’s differently abled.

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It should not remain in the NHS in my opinion. It should be deleted after the analysis is done.

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    • stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You don’t think having a full genome and medical history of everyone who’d been in contact with the NHS would be useful to researchers?

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• deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thank god. Paternity fraud finally not so easy.

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• Krill@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well parental consent to this is going to be interesting, given the father only gets it if the name is on the birth certificate (so marrital state is relevant) and that wouldn’t happen for several weeks. So really the mother gets to decide…so paternity fraud is going be forefront of discussions.

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• stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of the things we did during the pandemic was significantly scale up or ability to sequence genomes. We were literally watching the virus evolve near real-time because a large chunk of samples could be sequenced and processed.

  While they’re are obviously data privacy concerns, for which the UK has a fairly long history of legislating for, having a full sequence for every newborn could allow for all sorts of cheaper early interventions. I’m sure the dataset would also be very useful for researchers as well.

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• Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t believe England’s going to get this before people stop fucking their cousin.

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In Isreal, it’s illegal to get genetic testing done

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  • Chakravanti@monero.town ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s the logic there?

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• scratchee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like they need to speed up the test, if it takes 10 years then they won’t be babies anymore by the time they get results.

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