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Re:Florida becomes first state to enact DNA privacy law, blo... by nradov on Monday July 06, 2020 @02:41AM (#23745300)
As a practical matter there are very few mutations which indicate a 25% chance of a particular disease. Most of them have much more modest effects. Like I know I have a mutation which increases my lifetime risk of shoulder dislocation to 1.3% from a baseline average of 0.8%. So what.

The big one is mostly the BRCA mutations which increase cancer risk for women to around 70%.

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