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7 Billion People on Planet Earth

3 Billionish Genetic Base Pairs

15,000 disease modalities-ish(and many that are obfuscated or clustered as one disease)

60,000 genetic marker tests on the market.

8-10 new ones each day.

Knowing what they actually do? --- Costs Billions.




add in phenotype, microbiota, mitochrondrial DNA, behaviour , environmental and societal factors, we have some way to go....




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