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If I'm right ...

the time is coming not far off where you and I will be given the chance to find out what's on our list of future risks based on this kind of DNA testing.

We have ideas about prevention.

There are various recommendations about what you should be doing as far as good preventive health care depending on age, gender and so on.

But most people ignore them.

Part of the problem is that the current recommendations are one size fits all.

And we are individualists.

We wouldn't imagine buying a generic car on the car lot, so why should we accept a generic preventive medicine recommendation?

I think that's part of the reason that people just say, "It doesn't sound like me." Imagine changing that dynamic by having this much more precise individual information about future risk.

Then when you decided, "OK, what program of diet and exercise and medical surveillance am I going to undertake?

" you knew from your own individual DNA analysis where your weak spots were.

I think that would be a very, very powerful motivator for people to actually pay attention and take action.

Put that all together, and in the space of five to seven years, I think we'll have a pretty good chance to revolutionize preventive medicine by this individualized information.

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Do you have any examples of what risk prediction might look like?

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It's already a reality for some people.

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