A little over two years ago, I confessed that I was “just a little fearful of genetic testing.” I actually have two young kids and almost every day I see traits in them that I’m pretty positive they inherited from me whether or not via genes or behavior. If you’re a parent, I’m sure you'll imagine that there’s a lot of self-blame happening in our house.
Thus when it involves genetic testing, I ought to want to understand but I don’t. A minimum of not right this minute. Haven’t I got enough to fret concerning?
From Middletown Journal’s month-long series on the battle against cancer - Many with cancer gene don’t want to know.
There is a crowd of out there who could not wish to know. There’s a subset of individuals who if they knew would act on the knowledge and profit and there are others who would rather bury their heads within the sand.
~Dr. Michael Watson, director of the Yankee School of Medical Genetics
NIH Director Francis Collins, however, falls squarely in the camp of people who not solely want to understand, they act on the info. Well done!
Collins hits the gym following genetic testing from The Nice Beyond, Nature blog
Maybe if a genetic test could motivate me to go to the gym and lose weight, it would be price it
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