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How to live with genetic risk factors you can't change

My genetic test shows I'm at high risk for the disease that killed my father and I don't know how to live with this knowledge hanging over me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Predictive health information creates an existential burden of living with probabilistic threats to future wellbeing.

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