Web Site Asks for Donated DNA Samples, appeals to donors’ altruism to help it build a DNA database it hopes will allow correlation between medical conditions and genetic loci. ‘The privately held company will use the data to “offer several products and services” to

other firms and research facilities, another section of the Web site explains. Among other

revenue-generating projects, the firm intends to “provide aggregate health and genetic

information to outside research facilities,” and to “sell and/or lease clinically useful genetic

associations to public and private research and product development institutions.” ‘