Sooner Detection. Sooner Treatment. New research shows that a genetic risk score may detect those at higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease long before symptoms appear—even possibly in healthy young adults, according to a study published in Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. “The stage of Alzheimer’s...
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Genetic Testing ÛÒ Do You Want to Know? (Video)
Genetic Testing ÛÒ Do You Want to Know?
Genetic Testing – Do You Want to Know?
As you sit around the Thanksgiving table, an interesting conversation you might entertain is whether you would like your genes analyzed for $99 to see if there is some hereditary disposition you might have for disease thanks to those relatives you’re sitting with around the table. Genetic testing costs are...
Live to be 100? It May Be in Your Genes.
Scientists studying the genomes of centenarians in New England say they have identified a set of genetic variants that predicts extreme longevity with 77 percent accuracy. The centenarians had just as many disease-associated variants as shorter-lived mortals, so their special inheritance must be genes that protect against disease, said the...