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by zmmmmm 1641 days ago
Have you ever encountered any insurance implications from it? eg: questioned whether you have ever had a genomic test etc. and had to answer yes and then them wanting to see results?

I guess in your case where nothing actionable is found it's benign. It will be the cases where there are risk factors for late onset things - cancer, diabetes, heart disease etc. where it would get sticky.

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No, my health insurance company doesn't care about my whole genome data. Health Insurance companies are already quite skilled at (and profitable due to) their ability to model life expectancy and health issues without genomic data, and they are legally prohibited from using this data, in my country anyway. Life insurance is different (they are allowed to incorporate much more information) but I've never been asked for anything like that.

As for the case where nothing actionable is found- it's not benign. It's absence of information, not information of absence.