Senator Elizabeth Warren
You’ve all heard of Senator Elizabeth Warren, a front runner
for the Democratic presidential nomination and an unswattable black fly inside
Donald Trump’s shorts. Trump refers to
her as Pocahontas, because she once claimed Native American heritage to qualify
for some political/academic/financial advantage. All goes to show that even Progressive icons
can have feet of clay; if Senator Warren is part Native American than I am a
full-blooded Maori. Maybe a Mohawk chief
once kissed her great aunt on the forehead, but that’s as far as it goes.
I bring this up because the FDA has just approved 23andMe as
a reliable source of genetic testing for BRCA mutations. The cost seems to be a bit less than $200,
but as the web article (below) indicates their analysis may not be of much
use. Other sources of genetic
information are described. Your best
bet: a genetics counselor.
Oh, why Elizabeth Warren?
Well, it is being suggested that she take a genetics test to verify her
Native American heritage. She refuses.
https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/03/12/fda-approves-23andme-cancer-test-brca-genes-12686
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