{"id":98612,"date":"2013-11-24T02:21:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T10:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=23292"},"modified":"2013-11-24T02:21:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T10:21:42","slug":"open-thread-112413-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/24\/open-thread-112413-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread, 11\/24\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2013\/11\/23andMe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-23293\" alt=\"23andMe\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2013\/11\/23andMe.png\" width=\"515\" height=\"22\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the stranger call-ins on my interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpr.org\/shows\/which-grandparent-are-you-more\">Kathleen Dunn<\/a>\u00a0last month was when a woman who proudly declared that she was a math major in college asserted that 23andMe had told her she wasn&#8217;t at risk for many diseases which now in her 60s she had developed. I didn&#8217;t want to be too pointed about it, <strong>but if you are in your 60s you are at risk for developing many illnesses no matter what your &#8220;genetic risk.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0This is clear from 23andMe&#8217;s statistics, which display high baseline risks for many common diseases. From reading comments on 23andMe discussion forums it seems that perceived false negatives are going to be a much bigger issue than false positives over the long run. If the tests are &#8220;wrong&#8221; in a direction which leaves you in a better state than predicted you might feel like you&#8217;ve dodged a bullet. On other hand if the tests are &#8220;wrong&#8221; in a direction which gave you false comfort, or add insult to injury when you&#8217;ve developed a debilitating disease, then you feel much more burned.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really recommend blogs too much anymore. But please check out <a href=\"http:\/\/scholars-stage.blogspot.com\/\">The Stage<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/socialevolutionforum.com\/\">Social Evolution Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2013\/11\/open-thread-112413\/\">Open Thread, 11\/24\/13<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\">Gene Expression<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/LJCSU7XlqAo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the stranger call-ins on my interview with Kathleen Dunn&nbsp;last month was when a woman who proudly declared that she was a math major in college asserted that 23andMe had told her she wasn&rsquo;t at risk for many diseases which now in her 60s she had developed. I didn&rsquo;t want to be too pointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2013\/11\/open-thread-112413\/\">Open Thread, 11\/24\/13<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\">Gene Expression<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98612","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=98612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98613,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98612\/revisions\/98613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}