The close geneticrelationship of those Priest Rapids fish to the Hanford Reach chinook suggested that the river environment was responsible for the unusual results in the Hanford females.
Injecting so much uncertain genetic information into the doctor-patient relationship could create legions of "patients in waiting" leading to unnecessary tests, harmful outcomes and lifelong anxiety.
It formalizes the relationship between those who want to use the genetic resources of a given area, say as a basis for developing cosmetics or pharmaceuticals, and those who live in the region where the resources are found, for example an indigenous community in the Amazon.