{"id":4389,"date":"2010-05-01T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T11:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2010-05-01T13:24:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T11:24:38","slug":"spit-kits-snp-chips-and-neurosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2010\/05\/spit-kits-snp-chips-and-neurosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Spit Kits, SNP chips and neurosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Took me some time to find the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/free_forbes\/2007\/0618\/052_2.html%20\">Forbes June 2007<\/a> reference but here it is <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;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&#8211; and what we do is increase neurosis instead of improving health,&#8221; frets Yale University geneticist Richard Lifton.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 13.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took me some time to find the famous Forbes June 2007 reference but here it is &#8220;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&#8211; and what we do is increase neurosis instead of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2010\/05\/spit-kits-snp-chips-and-neurosis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spit Kits, SNP chips and neurosis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[2637],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-genetic-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4390,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}