Genetic tests give consumers hints about disease risk; critics h...

Courtesy washingtonpost.com - Health  Mon, 01/25/2010 - 22:25

Last fall, Sgt. Timothy Gall, an Army medic stationed at Fort Belvoir, sought clues to the multiple sclerosis and heart disease that ran in his family by looking into his DNA.

All it took was some spit and about a thousand bucks.

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