In the very early days of genetic testing, opponents argued that knowing about a gene-related susceptibility to a disease that couldn't be cured was far worse than ignorance. An article from the New York Times this weekend takes up that very debate in a profile of a young woman who finds out that she has the gene for Huntington's disease. "What runs in your own family, and would you want to know?" asks Nancy Wexler in the story, noting that this will become more of an issue as genetic testing becomes more prevalent.
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