...I don't know if I can afford $1000 right now but maybe soon.
You said you signed up, apparently I misunderstood, and you didn't sign up. Unfortunately you can't currently get your entire genome sequenced yet from Church's project for less than $1,000. Eventually full sequencing will be less expensive. Note that when the project began in 2005, fewer than 20 people in the world had been sequenced, and the cost to sequence a new human genome was over $350,000.
I have nothing to do with this project yet -- still deciding -- and view it as a humanitarian effort. Concerns about privacy are real, though, and should not to be breezily dismissed. No one knows the future, and how your most personal, intimate data shall be used -- if at all -- in the future. It's a bit of a leap of faith.
This should probably be its own thread. Read more details about the project here:
https://pgp.med.harv...du/participate/
"The Harvard Personal Genome Project (PGP) provides an opportunity for individuals to help drive biological research. Each of us has different traits, genetics and environmental exposures – even identical twins. The PGP uses an unconventional Open Science approach to provide a platform that allows scientific researchers to make connections between diseases, traits, environmental exposures and genetics. Through participation in the PGP, individuals publish data about themselves that can then be analyzed by researchers anywhere on the planet to understand human biology..."