Comments on: “One Package Fits All” DNA Testing http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/01/04/one-package-fits-all-dna-testing/ How will it change your life? Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:01:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/01/04/one-package-fits-all-dna-testing/#comment-34812 Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:32:51 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/01/04/one-package-fits-all-dna-testing/#comment-34812 Hi Barry, Since I'm not a customer of any of these services, I'm not sure how much tweaking you can do once you're viewing your data. I think early adopters will want to see it all but later ones might prefer to digest it piecemeal. Also, I think it is currently much more cost effective and informative to take a single or set of genetic tests specific to a condition rather than signing up for a genome scan. Hi Barry, Since I’m not a customer of any of these services, I’m not sure how much tweaking you can do once you’re viewing your data. I think early adopters will want to see it all but later ones might prefer to digest it piecemeal. Also, I think it is currently much more cost effective and informative to take a single or set of genetic tests specific to a condition rather than signing up for a genome scan.

]]> By: Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/01/04/one-package-fits-all-dna-testing/#comment-34811 Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:30:31 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/01/04/one-package-fits-all-dna-testing/#comment-34811 Steve, If physicians are truly confusing medical genetic testing with genealogy DNA testing, I fear for my health and safety! :P (I'll take the "a" comment to mean that you've given this post an A.) Steve, If physicians are truly confusing medical genetic testing with genealogy DNA testing, I fear for my health and safety! :P

(I’ll take the “a” comment to mean that you’ve given this post an A.)

]]> By: Barry Starr http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/01/04/one-package-fits-all-dna-testing/#comment-34693 Barry Starr Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:16:49 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/01/04/one-package-fits-all-dna-testing/#comment-34693 Great post. I think I like the idea of having a test like deCODE done and just looking at my genealogy for now. As science progresses, I may become more interested in the medical side and will take a peek then. Given how expensive individual genetic tests are, this seems pretty cost effective in the long run. Do these companies let you narrow your results so that you can just see the results for a single condition? Great post. I think I like the idea of having a test like deCODE done and just looking at my genealogy for now. As science progresses, I may become more interested in the medical side and will take a peek then. Given how expensive individual genetic tests are, this seems pretty cost effective in the long run. Do these companies let you narrow your results so that you can just see the results for a single condition?

]]> By: Steven Murphy MD http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/01/04/one-package-fits-all-dna-testing/#comment-34119 Steven Murphy MD Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:37:34 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/01/04/one-package-fits-all-dna-testing/#comment-34119 Hsien, Sorry about that. This is precisely why I have been advocating caution here. The same thing has been going on with nutrigenomic SNP testing. There are medically validated SNPs out there that are being used to "customize" vitamins for you. This is running a similar risk. The problem I see is the blurring of this testing with the validated, respected field of medical genetics. I am a physician. I went to medical school for a reason (No I didn't want 280k in USD debt the hard way) and I have to speak with physicians every day. I would rather they not think that I do genealogic testing. No offense to Blaine. But I would not like these two to be blurred lest I lose the position of being a MEDICAL provider. -Steve www.thegenesherpa.blogspot.com www.helixhealth.org Hsien,
Sorry about that. This is precisely why I have been advocating caution here. The same thing has been going on with nutrigenomic SNP testing. There are medically validated SNPs out there that are being used to “customize” vitamins for you. This is running a similar risk. The problem I see is the blurring of this testing with the validated, respected field of medical genetics. I am a physician. I went to medical school for a reason (No I didn’t want 280k in USD debt the hard way) and I have to speak with physicians every day. I would rather they not think that I do genealogic testing. No offense to Blaine. But I would not like these two to be blurred lest I lose the position of being a MEDICAL provider.

-Steve
http://www.thegenesherpa.blogspot.com
http://www.helixhealth.org

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