CDR: sieving the gene pool -not just Iceland
Estonia plans to raise between 1e8 and 1.5e8 dollars for a project to begin next year, to "compile DNA profiles and health information on75%ofthe country's 1.4 million citizens" ... "by contrast, [to Iceland's anonymity] the data and DNA samples in the Estonian project will be identifiable through a coded system." The project will keep samples too; citizens can opt out and samples will be destroyed. _Science v 290 6 Oct 2000 p 31 "Estonia prepares for national DNA database" (And I realize this still doesn't make Estonia part of Scandanavia.. :-)
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, David Honig wrote:
1.4 million citizens" ... "by contrast, [to Iceland's anonymity] the data and DNA samples in the Estonian project will be identifiable through a coded system."
That is really interesting considering that they have had, and still have, quite a problem with their Russian minority. Sort of takes one into the Orwellian mode of thought. Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university
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