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<blockquote><font size="+1">To:&nbsp; Governments and big biotech companies</font>
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Anyone who wants his/her genome typing should get it free of charge and the cost should be shared by the socities, bio-companies, and governments. <br />
Many advanced nations have biotech companies that try to get big profit from sequencing personal genomes. We are not against such activity. <br />
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We want people all over the world to get reasonably equal opportunities on getting their genome typing and sequencing done with minimum cost: $0.0. <br />
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Governments and companies can subsidize genome typing in poor nations and provide them with their sequence information free of charge with analysese results carried out by bioinformatics. <br />
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Resultant genome information is also shared openfreely throughout the world with the permission of the person who wanted his/her genome typed. <br />
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This is a feasible and ethical petition to enhance equality in understanding ourselves. We try to lower the gap between rich and poor countries in terms of sharing the most fundamental information of human beings. <br />
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We want United Nations, governments, big pharmas, biotech companies, science foundations to encourage to make genome typing free of charge for the whole world. It is to achive genomic equality in the long run. <br />
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Owning a PC and internet connection makes a huge difference in one's quality of life. <br />
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Genome information is something similar to that. <br />
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<p>Sincerely, </p>
<p><a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?0_genome"><font color="#810081">The Undersigned</font></a> </p>
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