DEEP DIVE: Are you ready to know what your genes say about your future?
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If you knew what your health would be like in the decades to come, would you change your life now?
That's what genetic testing could offer: a way to help us assess the risk of cancers or diseases that could be treated or prevented early.
But knowing what the future may hold is daunting.
Researchers at Monash University have just completed a study, testing thousands of young people for genetic variants.
We unpack what they found, how it feels to know your risk, and what genetic testing might mean for privacy, health insurance and our entire health system.
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- Dr Jane Tiller, Co-Lead of Monash University's DNA Screen study
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