Ethical, Legal and Social Issues

            Altough HGP unveils some crucial information for humankind,as always there is a lot of problems. Since there is a lot of problems ethically,legally and socially,%5 percent of budget gone to Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications(ELSI) program.One of them is budget(not suprisingly),because making a genome map of someone is still pretty expensive(costs about 1-2 million dollars)Also in order to testify theories and combinations really expensive computers are used and they have to run some biotechnechnical programs for long periods.

Ethically there is huge problems that still needs to be solved.Genome gives people more information then you know about yourself.So storing them properly and securely is already a big big problem.Also,who will have access to them?President,minister?As we said before storing somebody’s genome without his will(or even with his will) is definitely against for privacy policies and laws.Also at future genetic information may change policies of  insurance companies.For example Mr.Smith’s genome contains genes which can make him cancer at future,insurance company may  refuse to give him health insurance because they won’t earn any money,all of payments will be spent at future.

Legally,for crimes and investigations looking at somebody’s genome is neglection of someone's privacy.One way or another,they are going to find out a lot more than things needed to be found for case.If governments have access to genomes of citizens,then they are not respecting our protecting privacy.