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minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 days agodid you ever get genetic testing, if you had something lynch syndrome?
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-25 days agoGenetic testing was required after the first colonoscopy and they checked, I dunno, 180? 200? known gene markers for cancer? I was clean on all of them, but they turned up one abnormality that is flagged as “unknown” for cancer risk: "FLCN Variant, Unknown Significance: p.G66E Variant of Unknown Significance Detected" I can’t remember what all that means, but it’s a crazy small variant. One section of one gene, they found a “E” where they expected a “G”. “Wait, ‘E’? I saw GATTACA - ‘E’ isn’t DNA!” Correct!
did you ever get genetic testing, if you had something lynch syndrome?
Genetic testing was required after the first colonoscopy and they checked, I dunno, 180? 200? known gene markers for cancer?
I was clean on all of them, but they turned up one abnormality that is flagged as “unknown” for cancer risk:
"FLCN Variant, Unknown Significance: p.G66E
Variant of Unknown Significance Detected"
I can’t remember what all that means, but it’s a crazy small variant. One section of one gene, they found a “E” where they expected a “G”.
“Wait, ‘E’? I saw GATTACA - ‘E’ isn’t DNA!”
Correct!
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