Researchers Create Tool To Calculate A Person’s Inherited Risks For Five Diseases.

reports that researchers “have created a powerful new tool to calculate a person’s inherited risks for heart disease, breast cancer,” type 2 diabetes, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, and atrial fibrillation. The researchers, “by surveying changes in DNA at 6.6 million places in the human genome...were able to identify many more people at risk than do the usual genetic tests, which take into account very few genes.” The research was published in Nature Genetics. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/health/genetic-test-heart-disease.html