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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
Professor
Strayer University
Jan-2007 - Present
The company 23andme offers genetic tests where you can send in a saliva sample and get your DNA tested for free to determine information about where your ancestors came from and your susceptibility to particular diseases. For 2 years, 23andme had to stop doing health tests because the FDA was concerned about their accuracyLinks to an external site. and feared that people could decide to get surgeries or other extreme treatments based on inaccurate results. Eventually, they reopened with FDA approval to offer fewer genetic tests that were more accurate. If you had the option to take one of these genetic tests, would you choose to do so? What if you were able to take a genetic test that could predict with 90% accuracy whether you would get a deadly disease with no treatment? Would you want to know, or would you prefer to avoid finding out? Do you think genetic tests should be widely available, or do people need to take them in a doctor's office instead of interpreting the results themselves?
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