[HN Gopher] Genetic autopsies to unravel the mystery of sudden d...
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       Genetic autopsies to unravel the mystery of sudden deaths
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-02-01 21:10 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | phyzome wrote:
       | I'd be very wary of this. Very few medical conditions have any
       | kind of strong and simple link to known genes or gene networks.
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       | "This gene combo has a 10% chance of mortality due to cardiac
       | causes" doesn't tell you much about one person who died suddenly.
       | There are a lot of people with those genes who _didn 't_ die
       | suddenly of that thing, or did but of something else.
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       | So at best you're working with a sort of a shrug in a certain
       | direction.
        
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