My genetic future

For the August issue of Men’s Journal, I volunteered as an early guinea pig for a genome scanning service offered by the California-based company Navigenics. My genetic proclivity towards any of a couple dozen diseases was less than depressing but mildly alarming — and perhaps also completely unreliable. Here’s a .pdf of the story.

Navigenics and another genetic testing company, 23andMe, both just obtained their official licenses to operate in California.

Posted at 12:44 pm | Filed under Men's Journal, Recent stories, Science |

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I'm Evan Ratliff, a freelance journalist and feature writer for Wired, The New Yorker, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications. I'm also the story editor for Pop-Up Magazine, the world's first live magazine.

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