Dr. Collins was also responsible for discovery of the gene for cystic fibrosis. On many of the ethical questions, I would welcome the views of experts such as Francis Collins. Scientific knowledge helps to give us boundaries as to what is possible or impossible, and how the possible may be accomplished. But the new knowldge will permit a vast expansion of the definition of 'disease'. Gene sequencing, like all science, only describes what is.
Ethics requires input from a source other than facts.
Therefore, ethical guidelines regarding how genetic knowledge is used go far beyond the scope of the work of gene sequencers. I sense that our society has been floundering in trying to come to grips with bioethics. In biology, there are experts. In the absence of such expertise, we are left with opinions, and this is a very shaky place to be. I would suggest that we try to derive bioethics from the Scriptures, but I think that there too, there is too much room for bias in working out interpretations.