Welcome to the After-On podcast. I'm your host, Rob Reed.

And this is a series of conversations with thinkers, founders, and scientists.

Take a little time and stretch out because these talks are unhurried and meant to bring

you to a top percentile understanding of something important.

So whether you're in to start-up score ideas, a techie or a lit major, take your time, engage

your mind, and you'll be glad you did it.

Especially this week when we'll be talking to...

Medical geneticist Robert Green.

Our interview covers issues which are very complex and aren't widely understood, but despite

that, they're likely to become personally relevant to almost all of you over time.

And that's a rather odd claim for me to make because this certainly is not a self-help

podcast.

And today's episode will give you context on a wildly complex avalanche of intensely

personal, factual data that you can expect to receive about yourself in the coming years.

I'm talking about the contents of your genome.

The cost of reading our genomes is falling so quickly and the actionable insights that

come from this are growing so fast that within a decade or so, obtaining this data will

be as mundane and common as checking your cholesterol levels.

This will let you and your doctor know the precise contents of your 20,000 is genes.

Since some human genes literally have thousands of known mutations, this is a huge amount

of data.

And we won't know what to do with most of it on the day you receive it.

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