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Three Stories About Genetic Diseases
There are about ten thousand that have been identified, five thousand really well characterized. The cost of sequencing has gone down from about a billion dollars in two thousand three to about 600 now. Most people will not choose to implant a child who they know is going to die of a genetic disease. But there's the dangerous side when we get into the business of selecting which of these 10 fertilized eggs or embreos to implant.