1. And new genetic tests for other dread diseases are appearing almost every day. 2. Merely asking for a genetic test moved her into a high-risk insurance category. 3. In addition, genetic tests that reveal inherited diseases could prejudice employers against them. 4. And even if genetic tests could add to family history, they run the risk of defeating the whole purpose of insurance. 5. And synthetic DNA units are already being used in at least one genetic test. 6. And what will lawyers and behavioral scientists do with genetic tests that might tell them that a person is, say, prone to alcoholism? 7. As a first step, she needed a quick genetic test to distinguish alpaca hybrids from purebreds. 8. As more founder-effect genetic diseases are discovered, he said, some patients fear that they will be coerced into taking genetic tests before marriage. 9. As genetic tests become commercially available, people with a family history of cancer who are thinking about being screened must weigh the pros and cons of such tests. 10. Because they are among the most common degenerative diseases caused by faulty genes, they can often be identified early by genetic tests. |