Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing — The Need for Early Filtering of Genetic Information
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HealthReformWatch.comPosted
Thu 22 Jul 2010 7:35pm
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Genetic testing for adult onset diseases used to be mainly a medical service. In most cases a person who had a certain genetic disease that was prevalent in her family would go to test to see if she carries the genetic mutation. For example, a woman who had several cases
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Genetic Counselor sells suspect genetic tests!
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Dr. Steve MurphyPosted
Wed 29 Oct 2008 8:14am
with a list of genetic tests I should be tested for......little did she know that this was a list for the Sherpa and the she as a Board Certified Genetic Counselor would have...)
7. SNP testing for lung cancer predisposition (What are THEY smoking?)
I hope you get the picture, these were just a few of the 37 genetic tests this board certified geneticRead on »
ADHD’s Genetic Basis Old News! Recent Research: “First Direct Genetic Link” (Maybe)
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GinaPeraPosted
Thu 30 Sep 2010 12:00am
that until now we had no evidence that ADHD wasn’t caused by bad parenting or that this is the first news of a genetic link to ADHD.
What? You say you already knew that ADHD is highly genetic? Of course you did. I can’t account for the headlines, but it seems these news outlets missed a key adjective in Dr. Thapar’s explanation of her team’s research
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Genetic hope ( in the form of "Genetic Brakes") for MS and cancer patients
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stuartPosted
Tue 17 Nov 2009 10:20pm
Published Date: 20 April 2009
By MARTYN McLAUGHLIN
SCOTS scientists have discovered genetic "brakes" which could slow down or stop diseases such as multiple sclerosis and cancer, it was announced yesterday.
In what has been hailed as a "big step" towards answering one of medical science's great questions, the findings of researchers at the Roslin
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