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A comment on The Color Test for Risk of Common Hereditary Cancers in Women and Men.

Re:The Color Test for Risk of Common Hereditary Cancers in W... by kbenson on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:08PM (#11629326)
From the title, I initially assumed it was about human tetrachromats being more susceptible to certain cancers. I'm really starting to dislike how companies are using common words for their names, and not even bothering with weird spelling anymore. :/

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy#Human_tetrachrom...

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Re:The Color Test for Risk of Common Hereditary Cancers in W... by jd20 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:58PM (#11629703)
And here I was, imagining a kit with a color spectrometer that would measure skin tone, as a predictor. I thought, that's a novel idea... had to dig a bit deeper on the website, to realize it's saliva-based. Makes much more sense.
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