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What are the options for individual genetic testing?

I heard that there are some companies that do genetic testing and determine susceptibility to various diseases.

For example Market America has "Gene SNP" program when you send your saliva in and get report with recommendations and some food supplements.

How reliable such tests are?
Which company's tests have the widest disease coverage?
What is the reasonable price to pay for such service?

I wouldn't waste your money on this type of test. This type of science is not advanced enough to give you much in the way of useful information. Even if a company can test for 100 different diseases, that doesn't mean that the genetic markers they test for account for much of your overall disease risk. Most common diseases are caused by a combination of many genetic and environmental factors, most of which we probably have not yet discovered. Additionally, we don't really have enough data about these types of genetic variants for doctors to know what to do with the results. Your doctors probably wouldn't (and really shouldn't) change your medical management, regardless of what your results found.

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