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Impact of genetic risk assessment on nutrition-related lifestyle behaviours.
The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society - 1 Feb 2013
Vernarelli Jacqueline A
Abstract excerpt
Genetic susceptibility testing for common complex disease is a practice that is currently in clinical use. There are two types of gene mutations, and therefore, two varieties of genotype testing: deterministic and susceptibility. As the term suggests, deterministic genes determine whether or not a person will develop a given trait in mendelian fashion, such as Huntington's disease. Genotype screening for such...
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