American Consequences - October 2018

the ones that are sequenced and tell me what I’m susceptible to. And that’s going to change the way – we’re going to be such preventative patients going forward, it’s amazing. I’m a hypochondriac. I go to the doctor all the damn time. This is going to save me so much time because I know what to look for. I mean, this is going to be up in a trillion-dollar industry. There are things called monogenic diseases. There are more than 10,000 of them that they

know about, and this is when there’s one gene of all the genes in our body that’s screwed up. And if we can go in and just fix that, it cures the disease – sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis – I can go on and on. And if you can go in there and repair that one gene, you are cured. And the addressable market right now for a new diagnosis every year is $75 billion. If we go back to the people that have the diseases now, it’s a $2 trillion addressable market. This is a game changer...

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