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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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[the_rck]

It's good in as much as I don't have any of the genes that are known to be problems. It's bad in that, given family history, there's pretty likely to be something genetic. It's just that it must be something researchers haven't identified yet.