"We're talking about bringing this into our twilight years," he says. "What if they got hurt in college or high school and never got us scholarship, you never would have heard of them? So it's really for all the best that never were that we're trying to work with."
Can you predict your future health using genetics? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore advances in genetic testing, polygenic risk scores, and the future of genetics with geneticist Dr. Stuart Kim.
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