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I'm too afraid I would learn something awful about myself.
by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
I'm too afraid I would learn something awful about myself.
- junofan 3mo agoUnfortunately you’d have no power to correct it. Even if such a thing were possible. I hope that changes.
- TurdF3rguson 3mo agoAre you talking about time travel? I don't think that would help.
- ggirelli 3mo agoMore like genome editing.
- vintermann 3mo agoYou have no power to correct something with gene editing, true, but there may potentially be preventive action you can take. It's all largely hypothetical today anyway, most things you care about (e.g. cancer, Alzheimer's) you can't usually tell very reliably if you're going to get from a DNA test.
- vintermann 3mo agoThat's unlikely, but I do think that the health benefits of full sequence testing yourself are largely hypothetical at this point anyway. Unless you're a competitive athlete maybe? It's genealogy it's useful for. But genealogy, it's really useful for.
- sergey-a 3mo agoEverybody is a carrier of several genetic disorders, I haven't not seen a single person without that. If somebody doesn't like to know, let them be.