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A Reversal on Sequencing? Proposed Legislation Would Allow Patenting of Naturally Occurring Genes

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When it became possible to isolate the sequence of an individual gene from the genome, the Patent Office began issuing patents for them as compositions of matter. By 2010, about 2000 isolated human genes had been patented in the U.S. Cook-Deegan et al.