Biology / Unit 7 Bio 1585 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"A Genetic Risk Result Is a Diagnosis"
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The idea
A genomic risk result is not a diagnosis, because most common diseases are polygenic and environmentally modulated, so a flagged variant shifts probability, not certainty.
In practice
Two people can carry the same disease-associated variant and never develop the same condition, since other factors still shape the outcome.
Where people slip
A clean risk result does not guarantee the disease will never develop.
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