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This is very true, and genotyping just the HLA/KIR loci won't tell you much about all the other genes that are important for health. However, the HLA typing is
by souradip 5y ago
This is very true, and genotyping just the HLA/KIR loci won't tell you much about all the other genes that are important for health. However, the HLA typing is at least a start (and a free byproduct of signing up to donate stem cells) to introduce you to the rabbit hole of personal genomics! :)
This is also slightly different to the (linkage-disequilibrium-based) SNP arraying done by other genotyping places, since the HLA locus is fairly widely researched in its associations with infection and (auto)immunity!
- ineedasername 5y agoOh absolutely... It's a lot more expensive for sequencing, so there's no reason not to take a cheap option that at least gets you checked against known issues.