Peter Attia· MD
there are certain uh variants that are seen in certain communities so as an example if you happen to be ashkanazi Jewish there are three different spots in brca 1 or two that
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
there are certain uh variants that are seen in certain communities so as an example if you happen to be ashkanazi Jewish there are three different spots in brca 1 or two that
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as an example if you have happened to be Ashkenazi Jewish there are three different spots in brca one or two that account for the vast majority of all mutations in those two genes and if you know that we can take a shortcut and we can basically say for literally a small fraction of the cost of sequencing a genome we look at those three spots we get yay or nay and you've got most of the information that you need