What consumer DNA data can and can’t tell you about disease risk | Science News
▻https://www.sciencenews.org/article/health-dna-genetic-testing-disease
False alarm
A clinical lab checked worrisome results that people received from consumer DNA testing companies. Of the variants flagged as harmful, 40 percent were false positives. All but one of the bad calls were in cancer risk genes: BRCA1, BRCA2, TP53, CHEK2, MLH1 and ATM.
Risks explained
Customers of 23andMe who want to unlock information on their breast cancer risk must click through several screens of information before learning the result. This screen explains that risk goes beyond the three variants reported.
