The vast majority die at a young age, and most are never rescued from the specter of degenerative disease.

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Might a bank, for example, turn down a loan to someone because their health records suggest they may die at a young age?

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The genome has been deciphered and it is not the case that we can predict at a young age when people will die or even what nasty diseases they will get in old age.

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"Of course my father was still a relatively young man back then, 62, and we had no idea he would die at the relatively young age of 65, " she says.

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