Tegan Taylor

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Health Report · Genetic testing with online services, the effect of genetics on a population, safer pregnancy and antenatal care services, and why nano stuff and stem cells are like teenagers · 8 Mar 2021 podcast

Hi, good afternoon. voice-verified

So online genetic tests can be pretty popular and usually reliable for things like tracing back your family tree. voice-verified

But what happens if you take your genetic information and put it into a third-party website in an attempt to find out if you have a rare disease, rare disease-causing abnormality, such as a mutated uh BRACA-1 gene, which uh increases people's risk of breast cancer? voice-verified

Lauren, you've been looking into this. voice-verified

Is this something that Australians voice-verified

have been doing? voice-verified

SNP chips sound like something I would like to snack on rather than uh submit my DNA to but so it sounds like it's got a use but it's not being used correctly. voice-verified

W is it happening what's the impact of that here in Australia? voice-verified

So that's Monash University Public Health Genomics Programme, head Paul Lacarse. voice-verified

So how do these these SNP chip tests compare to the sorts of testing that would be done in a typical lab in Australia to screen properly for BRACA 1 and 2 genes? voice-verified

So in an Australian laboratory. voice-verified

Right, so people are just curious and want to find this stuff out. voice-verified

If you're really concerned about your cancer risk, if you've got a family history of it, what should you do? voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

A complex question requires a complex solution, not something you can just get online. voice-verified

Lauren, thanks so much for joining us on the Health Report. voice-verified

Thanks for having me. voice-verified

That's Lauren Roberts, my fellow health reporter from the ABC to Science Unit, and she's written an online story about this as well, all about genetic testing. voice-verified

You can find it on the health tab at abc.net.au. voice-verified

So, almost all of us experience some kind of stress or trauma in our lives. voice-verified

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