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I really would like to get my DNA anaylsed out of pure curiosity, but I'm also afraid I might discover something I would have been better not knowing.

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I did 23andme myself before the FDA came down on them and I'm happy for the things it tells me. What would you be better off not knowing?

Such as?

Such as a 20x heightened risk of developing Alzheimer's relative to baseline (as determined by your ApoE variant).

Yikes, are you worried?

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