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[the_rck]

Damn. I just got my copy of the genetics report for cancer risks. It doesn’t actually tell me if I have the 'likely benign' PALB-2 variant that my sister has because they don’t bother reporting anything that they think is benign. One of the points of this exercise was to find out whether or not I have that specific variant. I could have variants on every gene tested, as long as someone in the US had labeled it benign, and never know.

::sighs:: I’ll see if the genetics counseling people have that information and if I can pry it out of them. I kind of suspect they won’t want to tell me.

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[heavenscalyx]

Ask them for the data instead of the report. If it was full sequencing, they may hand you a hard drive (those files can be upward of 100GB). If it was a SNP analysis, it should be a smallish file. Either way, I know a few tools one can use to look at this stuff.

[lunabee34]

That is frustrating. :(

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Well, drat. Hopefully they'll share the information.

[desdemonaspace]

I hope it's good news, or at least neutral.