Genetics a poor predictor of risk for most...
Engadin 21 Dec 2019
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New research shows that genetics account for only five to 10 per cent of risk for most human diseases, and that gene testing is a poor predictor of whether someone will develop diseases including diabetes, Alzheimer's and many types of cancer.
In most cases, your genes have less than five percent to do with your risk of developing a particular disease, according to new research by University of Alberta scientists.
Edited by Engadin, 21 December 2019 - 12:51 AM.
kurt9 01 Jun 2020
I think we're finally getting around to burying the idea the most diseases as well as aging is somehow "genetic". It became very clear to me as long as 10 years ago that, aside from congenital disorders, that very little adult onset disease is due to "genetics" and that aging itself is not "genetic" either. That aging can be due to genomic DNA damage is still an open question. But there are no aging or anti-aging genes.
Hip 06 Jun 2020
it is becoming increasingly clear that the risks for getting most diseases arise from your metabolism, your environment, your lifestyle or your exposure to various kinds of nutrients, chemicals, bacteria or viruses
Medical science has been very slow on this, but eventually they'll realize that pernicious environmental factors, of which viruses and bacteria are arguably the worst, are behind most diseases.
See List of Chronic Human Diseases Linked to Infectious Pathogens.