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By Andy Coghlan
You can teach an old dog new tricks – with help from genomics. A pioneering study has found that knowing your genetic risk for various diseases makes people switch to healthier lifestyles, and stick to them.
Consumer DNA analysis companies such as California-based 23andMe already offer advice on beneficial lifestyle changes after screening customers’ DNA for gene variants linked with disease. Estonia’s government has offered a similar service free of charge to 100,000 of its citizens. But no one has so far shown that such advice is enough to convince people to make real and …
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