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I'd beg to differ. There are armies of marketing drones out there trying to convince people of the necessity of genetic testing when it still carries so much un
by tomc1985 7y ago
I'd beg to differ. There are armies of marketing drones out there trying to convince people of the necessity of genetic testing when it still carries so much uncertainty. Personally I find it very concerning that submitting samples to each of the firms returns dramatically different results
- bookofjoe 7y agoThis retired physician (neurosurgical anesthesiologist) agrees wholeheartedly with you re: the radically different results the same patient often receives from different companies. Better not to test at all?
- ineedasername 7y agoThe different results pertain to their (very speculative) ancestry models. I have not seen any incident where testing services disagreed on specific genetic markers, and that is what the medical indicators are based off of. You have to separate the ancestry guessing from the medical research, which is not done by the testing companies.
- ineedasername 7y agoBut what you're saying is not that preventative medicine based on genetic testing is bad; You're saying genetic testing is over hyped by the testing companies. That criticism doesn't argue against testing, it argues for medical practitioners to be well informed and to inform patients about balancing risks of treatment. As for differing results, I've never heard of firms disagreeing about particular genetic markers. What I've seen are ill-defined correlation models that try to tie them back to geographical regions when that's just not a great idea at all. You have to separate the two: The ancestry stuff is much closer to pseudo science than the medical.