* I don't think the tech is mature enough to be 100% reliable
* It'll probably just worry people more than anything.
* Doctors are trained. Some guy getting this thing isn't.
* It's fun. It really is. Even the part about the Parkinson, after you get over it.
* You're pretty much subsidizing a new industry.
* There is a chance you can actually use this. Either if you actually
have a rare disease gene, or if you're a carrier.
In any case, I intend to take a printout to my next medical visit.
Hate?! Trust me, I have no intention of pestering him/her with every minute detail of the chart. But I do know I have a (somewhat) higher risk for prostate cancer in advanced age, and I sure want to have a talk with him about ways to mitigate it. I was under the impression that is pretty much his job...
But I think I understand a bit of what you mean. For example, my results lists obesity at "normal", with a whopping 60% chance. Same way, one slightly raised chance of a certain disease may not mean much when compared to a host of other illnesses with much higher baseline chances. As it happens though, prostate cancer is already high on the list, so I do intent to fully make use of the information.
Not something I want to know much about. I figure I'm in this life for however long it's going to last, based mostly on factors I can't change. I don't want to know that I'm predisposed to get ALS, or Parkinsons, or cancer, or whatever else they might tell me.
