There are other issues as far as fairness. A second one is employment discrimination. While it is not yet happening, at least not on a large scale, it could come to pass that if somebody could be tested for, say, Alzheimer's disease and found to be at a higher than normal risk, they might not get promoted to that big, important position because a company would decide that wasn't a good investment. I don't think that is fair. I think that violates the standards of fairness that we would all subscribe to, and something needs to be done legislatively to prevent that.
Genetic tests are very personal.
That means having a medical record that doesn't leak like a sieve. At the moment, we don't have such a medical record, and real efforts need to be made, and are being made, to see how we can accomplish that. The fourth issue is the matter of how do we decide when it is time for a new genetic test to be introduced into general medical practice. We are, in large numbers now, beginning to glimpse ways of predicting who's at risk for what. Those issues really have to be dealt with swiftly.