Just the title alone is misleading. Genomic sequencing isn’t happening automatically at birth now, although it is being discussed. This case is about:
According to a lawsuit filed by the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender (OPD), the practice came to light after a case in which New Jersey State Police successfully subpoenaed a testing lab for a blood sample drawn from a child. Police then performed DNA analysis on the blood sample that reportedly linked the child’s father to a crime committed more than 25 years ago.
What I was trying to say, I said incorrectly or without enough information, which was not my intention.
Do I believe they are sequencing everyone’s DNA at birth? I believe, based on this, that they don’t have to, because as long as samples are being stored- they might as well be doing dna sequencing at birth, bc the two are interchangeable.
So it doesn’t matter what I believe re what they are doing at birth. That was my entire point.
I was saying that genomic sequencing wasn’t being automatically performed, but storing the samples equals the same result.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/29/23283837/nj-police-baby-dna-crimes-lawsuit-public-defender
Just the title alone is misleading. Genomic sequencing isn’t happening automatically at birth now, although it is being discussed. This case is about:
https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Newborn-Screening-Fact-Sheet
They don’t have to do DNA sequencing when the samples are being stored.
What I was trying to say, I said incorrectly or without enough information, which was not my intention.
Do I believe they are sequencing everyone’s DNA at birth? I believe, based on this, that they don’t have to, because as long as samples are being stored- they might as well be doing dna sequencing at birth, bc the two are interchangeable.
So it doesn’t matter what I believe re what they are doing at birth. That was my entire point.
I was saying that genomic sequencing wasn’t being automatically performed, but storing the samples equals the same result.