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Spit Kits, SNP chips and neurosis

Took me some time to find the famous Forbes June 2007 reference but here it is

“The risk is that 20 years from now everyone gets tested and learns they have a 5% risk for developing 10 diseases and a 2% risk for 20 other diseases– and what we do is increase neurosis instead of improving health,” frets Yale University geneticist Richard Lifton.