Content: A Dip in the Gene Pool, What you can and can’t learn about your DNA. It’s amazing that we can spit in a tube and drop it in of genetic information about ourselves for very little money,” says geneticist Lawrence Brody of the National Institutes of Health.
What to do with that information is another matter. “Nothing about the genetics of the common human conditions is simple;
points out Jeannine Austin, president of the National Society of Genetic Counselors.
But what about your risk of cancer, dementia, diabetes, or other diseases?
We like to imagine that if we knew that we had a genetic vulnerability for something like Alzheimer’s or breast cancer, we would do things differently to reduce our risks. But it’s not that simple.
