It was late Friday night – the email arrived to let me know that my Navigenics genetic test results were ready.
I thought for a second – am I ready? But without another thought I logged in and there they were.
As I scanned the private report, I realized that there was a lot of information. I went from top to bottom, focusing on the conditions that were important to me – heart attack, Alzheimer’s, diabetes.
My quick read was “relief” – no surprises – the conditions that I was at higher than normal risk for were ones that occurred in my family. My dad lived to age 87 and my mom to age 84; the conditions that I think I need to pay attention to were the same ones that they were afflicted with.
But I have the chance to do something about it.
Of course we know that all human beings are related, but sometimes genetic analysis drives this point home even more strongly. If you carry a rare variant in the Factor V Leiden gene – which has just been added to the 
Navigenics has joined healthcare leaders across the country to support a new 
The first consumer genetics conference gets underway in Boston today, bringing together leaders in the fields of genetic testing, health, genetics and law.
To a lot of people, 
At a time when most personal genetic testing companies do not even offer