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If you know somebody's medical history and 23andMe results, can you say more things about them at any given level of confidence than you could with just zis med
by khafra 16y ago
If you know somebody's medical history and 23andMe results, can you say more things about them at any given level of confidence than you could with just zis medical history?
- carbocation 16y agoNot really, at least not for cholesterol; not right now. [1] Hopefully in the next few years, yes. But genetic data, since our knowledge is limited, does not increase risk discrimination beyond family history. It does, modestly, increase risk classification. Edit - Link didn't work initially. I was not trying to just snarkily link to pubmed - I had a specific paper in mind. Sorry! [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18354102 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18354102