Genetic Testing Could Tell You A LOT About Your Health
Good Housekeeping
Virginia Sole-Smith
January 1, 2016

Inconclusive results — that is, you show some susceptibility to a condition, but a geneticist can't calculate your exact risk — are common. And even definitive testing can't tell you when a condition will set in or how severe it will be, says Joy Larsen Haidle, of the National Society of Genetic Counselors. Before testing, "Ask yourself, Will I use this information, or will it only make me anxious?"