• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      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!