Re: DNA-Allele Analysis

From: Ari Silversteinn (abcarisilverstein_at_yahoo.comxyz)
Date: 04/19/05 

Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:10:03 -0400

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:48:29 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Swallow wrote:

>> Hm, am I stuck here?
>
> Unlikely. A bit is a single base-pair and you have a lot of them. Just
> pick 128 of them.

<thumping forehead> Excuse the ignorance. It's genetic. lol
 
> As well as the junk DNA currently recorded you can use real DNA
> providing the values differ in at least 1/8 of the human race. That
> gives you sex, skin colour, hair colour, eye colour, hight, build,
> ability to digest milk, protection against malaria, etc., microcodria
> and those virus whose infection we are born with.
>
> Characteristics can be converted from sequences into a few bits.
>
> male/female = 1 bit.
> hair red/blond/brown/black = 2 bits
>
> As for cost of testing, once the pattern location has been standardised
> machines will be developed to cheaply test just the ones required. When
> automated all the tests can be done at the same time.
>
> Andrew Swallow

Whoa, that's good news and good info. We are being requested to set up a
DNA lad, secured and dedicated, for one of our clients. By doing so, we
could also set the protocols any way we want.

Hm squared. Need to ascertain if the analysis machine's are custom
programmable. Surely so.

Most of the cost is in the human time element, Andrew; it takes x hours to
develop an analysis (not counting for reruns, retakes of DNA, etc.) and
fixed costs like DNA transport and disposal.

Do you have a (micro)biological background? 

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