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Old 01-01-2014, 10:03 AM
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Default NYTimes article about Genetic Testing

The author sent her required samples to three labs, with three DIFFERENT sets of results, some contradictory.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/sc...ml?ref=science

"In the case of rheumatoid arthritis, though, the tests examined the same five markers, plus a few others, and delivered contradictory interpretations."

"J. Craig Venter, chief executive of his namesake institute and of Synthetic Genomics, was a pioneer in sequencing the human genome in 2000. Though he issued recommendations to genetic testing companies four years ago to help them improve their predictions, he remains skeptical of their clinical value."

“Your results are not the least bit surprising,” he told me. “Anything short of sequencing is going to be short on accuracy — and even then, there’s almost no comprehensive data sets to compare to.”

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