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72. What’s Stopping Us From Curing Rare Diseases?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Genetic Testing

Gorg: What if artificial intelligence could examine the fingerprints, the breadcrumbs, of a patient? Gorg: A computer can predict which subset of patients is more likely to have one of these rare conditions. He says we're not flagging enough people who are at risk and as a result, many don't know they have it. The first complete sequence of the human genome was obtained two decades ago. It took about a decade and three billion dollars.

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