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Razor,
This also raises the issue that genetic histories have to be made private in order to prevent insurance companies from denying you insurance since they will consider you expensive if there is a chance that you might be predisposed to something. You can get yourself genotyped for significant amount of money. The question is, do you want to know what is possibly in your future. It would be illegal for them to acquire such information forcibly. For instance I know that when I worked at MSKCC, my intellectual curiosity wanted me to test for some other markers for cell cultures that were deemed not useful. I was instructed to throw them out. I could not do anything else to them. Insurance companies cannot use any blood that the hospital took during the physical in order to find out how much you pay potentially cost.
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