Want to buy one of the personal DNA tests popping up these days? “My message is you are wasting your money,” Christine Patch, a genetics counselor and member of the UK’s Human Genetics Commission, said Friday.
. . .It seems like a new company is cropping up every week to hawk DNA tests over the Internet. These aren’t the kinds of targeted tests doctors order for patients at high risk for a given disease connected to one or more well-known mutations. They’re one-size-fits all tests that can cost thousands of dollars and make a range of sweeping promises from predicting disease risk to describing ancestry.