How Sickness Happens
June 5, 2012 | Terry Sharrer
This piece is about Stanford geneticist Michael Snyder’s own experience with personalized genomics. For two and a half years, he analyzed his own blood samples and sequenced his DNA. His genome indicated a risk for type 2 diabetes, which actually presented in due course. The trigger may have been a simple cold, which unmasked the underlying disease—documenting a gene expression and environmental interaction which may be a typical way “individualized” sickness happens. MORE
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