Linda, thoroughly be-catted
Commercial
DNA testing services are great fun. Rub
a cotton swab around in your mouth, send it off – and before long you find that
you are related to Winston Churchill. Or, maybe, Donald Trump. At the very least you may
discover that your ancestors were reindeer herders in northern Finmark. All amusing, and totally harmless.
Unfortunately,
the data provided by these commercial DNA- sequencing outfits also may be
utilized for health purposes, which turns out to be a bad idea, according to
the British Docs cited below. The reliability just isn’t there, in many cases.
The moral here is simple; don’t do anything radical and/or irreversible
until you talk to a genetics counselor and/or your primary care physician.
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