The Navigator - Navigenics Blog
Genetic insights into health and wellness
June 02, 2009
To a lot of people, genetic testing still sounds like futuristic fiction. And that means people come to us with different misconceptions of what genetic testing is all about.
To help address some of those perceptions, we’ll start blogging from time to time about common myths that surround genetic testing and try to set the record straight.
Here’s one misconception our genetic counselors often hear:
Myth: My DNA is my destiny, and I don’t want to know.
Categories: About Navigenics, Diabetes, Glaucoma
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June 24, 2008
Since its inception, Navigenics has been driven by the vision of improving health outcomes. The feedback from our members is exciting. Over the last few months we have heard from those discovering colon cancer risk and then finding polyps, discovering glaucoma risk and then discovering elevated eye pressure, discovering celiac disease risk and then getting a positive diagnosis, and many others.
We are at the very early stages of the new era of predictive genomics and personalized medicine. There are many voices, there is much debate and there is great dialogue. As part of furthering that discussion, today we are pleased to announce the launch of our official company blog, The Navigator. Through this blog, we hope to add our voices more regularly to the dialogue on genes and health. We also want to create the opportunity to get more of your feedback and add your voices to the discussion.
Categories: About Navigenics, Celiac disease, Colon cancer, Glaucoma
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