For $4,000, This Genetic Counselor Will Screen Your DNA for Thousands of Diseases
At Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, healthy patients can get tested to gauge their risk for developing a myriad of conditions.
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In late 2015, Kristine Trudeau was waiting inside Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston to get some blood drawn when a research assistant approached her. Would she be interested in donating her blood for genetics research?
“I thought, that’s a good thing, right?” recalled Trudeau, who was 51 at the time. “Anything I can do to help.” She signed some papers and forgot about it.