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Technical Report: Life - It's all in the genes.
(From Reinsurance)
Byline: Keith Sankey.
While there is no denying that the science of genetics made rapid strides through the 1990s and into the current millennium, movement was faster in some fields than in others. Progress in the project to map the human genome outstripped all but the most optimistic of expectations.
However, the use of genetic epidemiology in the diagnosis and treatment of disease lagged some way behind.
In the context of life and health insurance, genetic testing as a means of predicting the future development and progress of serious illness is a highly controversial topic. On the one hand there are those who ...
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