From Sam Edge, Ringwood, Hampshire, UK
I couldn’t agree more with Suzanne O’Sullivan that the half-baked UK government plan to screen all newborns for hundreds of gene variants is dangerous, a waste of money and unscientific(12 July, p 21).
As well as being pointless from a clinical point of view, as with previous plans to put babies’ fingerprints or other biometrics into a central database, it is an irreversible invasion of the privacy of people who have no possible way of giving informed consent.
