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Op-Ed: Why whole-genome testing hurts more than it helps

Por: Los Angeles Times Opinion April 22, 2023

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President Obama proposes to plunk down $215 million on precision medicine, and the National Institutes of Health and its National Cancer Institute will spend it by sequencing the whole genome of a million or more Americans. Is whole-genome testing the path to health? The short answer is no. The main problem with the proposal is that the research is bound to produce more noise than signal. The issue isn't genetics but big data. The basic... + full article



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