Genetic tests as prophecy: understanding self-defeating and self-fulfilling mechanisms in (predictive) genetic testing.

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Predictive genetic tests are reflexive in that they have the potential not merely to indicate plausible future health outcomes, but to influence the eventual outcome. This article offers an overview of how genetic tests can be self-fulfilling, self-defeating, or otherwise influence what happens to the person's health. Certain reflexivity is in fact the primary goal of testing, as when those at risk of inherited...

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