The new DNA test that predicts your future health – The Times

Despite his wifes objections, David Aaronovitch was determined to take the new, highly detailed 500 DNA test that promises to tell you everything from your predisposition to developing cancer to which sport you should play. But in the process he made a discovery that could affect not only his life but those of his children and grandchildren

The Times,November 30 2019, 12:01am

It caused a row at home. My wife, Sarah, was adamant that I shouldnt take the new DNA test. She pointed to a recent item in The Sunday Times where the young writer Flora Gill had discovered that she was genetically likely to develop Alzheimers in old age. If youre going to have Alzheimers and if my life is going to be looking after you, she said, then I dont want to know about it in advance. Itll be bad enough when it comes. She wasnt persuaded by my counter argument that in the unlikely event of a poor diagnosis it was surely better to be prepared. So in the end I had to fall back on the insistence that its my body and if

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