Special Episode: Genetic Testing
The Science of Everything Podcast
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Is There a Risk of Overestimation of Genetics?
For me personally, and again, this is just sort of my view, I probably wouldn't want to know about any condition unless it was something that I could do something about. The medical community is coming to realize that often that's actually not the case. For example, if conditions have a very high baseline relative to the sensitivity and specificity of the test, then you can get a large number of false negatives. And all of these things have costs associated with them. There's a balancing act there about how medically useful information is and what the risk is balanced against the costs and stress.
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