James Watson's DNA Secrets Revealed ... or Not

This small company with big ideas has been at the forefront of the fabled effort known as the "$1,000 genome"—that is, a process to reduce the expense of sequencing a person's every G, T, A, and C from hundreds of thousands of dollars to a price similar to what an MRI scan costs.

Early in the project, Watson asked 454 to delete his results for the apoE gene associated with Alzheimer's disease. Now he may have more disease variants inked out to protect his and his sons' privacy.

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