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Family health history a powerful, underused tool

2010-11-08T12:30:58Z

Make Grandma spill the beans: Uncovering all the diseases that lurk in your family tree can trump costly genetic testing in predicting what illnesses you and your children are likely to face.

It may sound old-fashioned, but a Cleveland Clinic study comparing which method best uncovered an increased risk of cancer helps confirm the value of what is called a family tree health history.

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Direct-to-consumer genetic testing

2010-11-29T15:18:41Z

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What A Concept: Docs Trained in Genetic Testing

2010-10-26T23:11:08Z

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Putting Genetic Tests to the Test

2010-10-26T23:11:05Z

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How I felt when my hacked genome was read

2010-10-21T10:13:49Z

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Mapping Your Genes

2010-06-26T04:36:49Z

Spend a weekend with your family and you can't help but wonder if you've inherited your father's tendency to put on weight or your grandmother's rheumatoid arthritis. Now, with a gaggle of new companies offering direct-to-consumer genetic testing, you can find out without even going through your doctor. Spit in a tube, send in a saliva sample—accompanied by a hefty check—and you can learn if your genes put you at increased risk for a host of conditions, from Alzhe...

GENE TESTS: BEHIND THE HYPE

2010-04-16T12:36:38Z

GENE TESTS: BEHIND THE HYPE

If Greg Lennon is right, then the personal genome gold rush has a major flaw: There's not much gold there--not yet.

In the past year, companies have launched high-profile efforts to read the future in people's genes. For $399, a Google-backed startup called 23andMe collects s...

Live Blogging: Personal Genomics and Predictive Software

2010-10-26T10:46:09Z

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Me and my genome

2010-10-21T10:09:49Z

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Decode Me? Personal DNA Sleuthing on a Q-tip

2010-10-22T17:10:35Z

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Genetic Crystal Balls Arrive on Internet

2010-10-22T17:52:29Z

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