{"id":39758,"date":"2011-04-17T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T18:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=10938"},"modified":"2011-04-17T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T18:38:11","slug":"two-opinions-on-d-t-c-personal-genomic-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/17\/two-opinions-on-d-t-c-personal-genomic-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Two opinions on D.T.C. personal genomic testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/genomeboy\/\">Mischa Angrist<\/a> and some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_R._Korf\">medical geneticist M.D.<\/a> offering their opinions in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/health\/la-he-dtc-gene-tests-20110418,0,4915087.story\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a>. You know what Mischa is going to say, so what&#8217;s the good doc&#8217;s opinion?  It&#8217;s the first and last paragraph which are really interesting to me:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The kind of regulation I would like to see on direct-to-consumer genetic tests would require the involvement of medical professionals<strong> who understand the testing information, its limitations and its applications, and who can interpret the information in a way that makes sense to each person.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At this point in time,<strong> we as a society are also sharing the burden of paying for healthcare. <\/strong>So when someone goes through direct-to-consumer testing and subsequently seeks expensive follow-up testing, it has an impact on the resources of society as a whole. Personal genomic testing is, therefore, not just a matter of personal freedom; its use intersects with the needs of the community.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAs revealed on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/03\/your-genes-your-rights-fdas-jeffrey-shuren-not-a-fan\/\">previous threads<\/a> <strong>there are hardly any medical professionals who &#8220;understand the testing information, its limitations and its applications, and who can interpret the information in a way that makes sense to each person.&#8221;<\/strong> Those who might dispute this characterization can be <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/03\/genetic-paternalists-are-very-patronizing\/\">very &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Mischa Angrist and some medical geneticist M.D. offering their opinions in The Los Angeles Times. You know what Mischa is going to say, so what&#8217;s the good doc&#8217;s opinion?  It&#8217;s the first and last paragraph which are really i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1249,1203,82,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-t-c-personal-genomics","category-f-d-a","category-genomics","category-personal-genomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39876,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39758\/revisions\/39876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}