11.  Industry leaders say they hope the technology can prove itself before it becomes a political or social football and efforts to block the collection of genetic data succeed.

12.  Laboratory technicians there can compare the genetic data from different parts of the country, reaching conclusions with fewer cases than in the past.

13.  Negotiations aimed at combining their efforts collapsed this month amid bitter disagreements over how their genetic data would be released.

14.  Reports have been rare of individual rights being violated by unauthorized use of personal genetic data.

15.  Some schools have used genetic data to classify students as slow learners or assign them to special education.

16.  Some big drug companies, primarily just users of genetic information, have joined in consortiums to help prevent some raw genetic data from being patented.

17.  Storing, manipulating and analyzing this mountain of genetic data is the province of computer scientists and mathematicians.

18.  The divorce settlement permits the institute to publish all its new genetic data immediately.

19.  The coming flood of genetic data also raises profound ethical questions for companies.

20.  The detailed genetic data now available to researchers may change that.