Possible Benefit From Online Genetic Testing For Lung Cancer
Friday, July 10, 2009 - 09:21
in Health & Medicine
As scientists continue to decode the human genome and the information becomes publicly available, private companies that offer online genetic testing are multiplying. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health were concerned that perhaps these tests posed a risk. They evaluated responses to an online test among smokers who did or did not have a common genetic variant associated with risk for lung cancer. The results raise a new set of questions, but also allay some of the early concerns.