Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Study Says DNA’s Power to Predict Illness Is Limited - NYTimes.com

Study Says DNA's Power to Predict Illness Is Limited
By Gina Kolata of the New York Times
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If every aspect of a person's DNA is known, would it be possible to predict the diseases in that person's future? And could that knowledge be used to forestall the otherwise inevitable?
The answer, according to a new study of twins, is, for the most part, "no."
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Full Text: here
Original Research Article: The Predictive Capacity of Personal Genome Sequencing

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