Fri Jan 20, 2023 – 11:53 am EST
DAVOS, Switzerland (LifeSiteNews) — A Duke University professor and “futurist” said on Friday that “genetic predictions” could play a role in whether people “decide to have children” in the future.
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“A lot of people and a lot of different organizations that I work with struggle with questions of genetic predictions, particularly for highly penetrant, meaning it’s very very predictive that you will likely develop the disease, like ALS for example, but you don’t know when.” Nita Farahany said during a panel discussion entitled “Transforming Medicine, Redefining Life.”
“So, you have incredibly high prediction, but very little sense about when the onset [of the disease] would be.”
“How do you counsel somebody about how to integrate that information into their lives, whether or not they should do genetic testing?” Farahany asked. “What the implications for their family members may be as well, because if they have that particular gene, that particular mutation, it may very well be that their children have it; Or it may
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