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This article is paywalled. There is a summary on reddit: > An extremely sobering story about overtesting. A family was found to have a particular, rare BRCA mu
by herodotus 7y ago
This article is paywalled. There is a summary on reddit:
> An extremely sobering story about overtesting. A family was found to have a particular, rare BRCA mutation which led to the women (including those that wanted to have future children) to have have radical mastectomies and oophorectomies. A few months ago their particular BRCA mutation was downgraded from harmful to undefined -- moving one woman's lifetime chance of breast cancer from 86% to 20%. The laboratory that reported both the initial and follow-up numbers has 33 cases of this mutation -- 11 from this extended family.
- bookofjoe 7y agohttp://archive.is/7S89q http://archive.is/7S89q