Study Says DNA’s Power to Predict Illness Is Limited

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This interesting article in today’s New York Times says that a recent study of twins indicates that knowledge of a “every aspect of a person’s DNA” cannot predict the diseases in that person’s future nor could that knowledge “forestall the otherwise inevitable.”

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www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/health/research/dnas-power-to-predict-is-limited-study-finds.html

Study Says DNA’s Power to Predict Illness Is Limited
New York Times
By Gina Kolata
April 2, 2012

Robin