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by stevep98 4212 days ago
https://www.23andme.com/en-gb/health/reports/

For each disease, they will tell you what the average risk of developing it is, and then they will tell you what they think YOUR risk, based on your DNA.

For example, average woman will develop breast cancer, say 3%, but you might be at elevated risk, say 8% because you have the BRCA1 mutation.

As far as changed behavior, for most cases you're unlikely to do much, except perhaps go to the doctor a bit earlier to get a mammogram.

[Apologies for using female examples, if that's not your gender.]

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Definitely interesting. I just need to figure out whether the benefits of knowing those things and paying attention to catch them early is worth the cost of potentially constantly stressing out and over reacting.