Talk:Genetic testing

message: The National Office of Public Health Genomics lists valuable resources for the evaluation of genetic tests.  http://www.cdc.gov/genomics/gTesting.htm 
Lid6 17:36, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: External Link

message: This was no way an A class page so I've downgraded it to B.
There is only one disease listed as testable for a start(not including recent vandalism) this is ridiculous, there must be loads of diseases you can test for.Sam Hayes 22:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: A class

message: "a parent will usually only receive the result if it is positive"
Does this mean the test is positive for a disease or positive meaning good?--75.19.84.167 03:12, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medical Procedure 

message: No word is said on how the laboratory actually looks for modification in the DNA... shouldn't the words PCR and FISH appear somewhere in the article ?
XApple (talk) 18:41, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's a start for, targeted mutation nanalysis, linkage analysis and prenatal testing which should be covered in the article,
,.LeeVJ (talk) 23:11, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Procedures and coverage

message: * Any WikiPedia entry should be neutral towards the issue discussed. Both sides should have equal space. 
* What diseases are tested for? 93.161.107.14 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 20:59, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is not neutral, it is highly critical of genetic testing 

message: See here: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/medicine/genetest.shtml.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.63.226.98 (talk) 06:00, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the report. It does look like this is a copyvio (sometimes it's not—the other website has copied from Wikipedia). However in this case the material was dumped into the article on 24 February 2010 in these two edits by  who has made no other edits. I do not have time to deal with it at the moment, but someone should confirm and work out what to do. It might be argued that material from www.ornl.gov is reusable here (I do not know), but if that were true, and if we wanted to use it, we must acknowledge the usage. Johnuniq (talk) 06:26, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have just rewritten the problematic text to paraphrase rather than be a simple copy-and-paste.  Most of it was redundant to material elsewhere in the article, which I was in the process of cleaning up anyway. -- Beland (talk) 23:10, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible copyvio

message: When I merged in Gene Diagnostics, the "Specific diseases" section in this article got a lot of material that doesn't particularly need to be in this article.  I would suggest moving the specifics for each disease to the linked article for that disease, and just leaving the list of links here.  I expect there will be many hundreds of genetic diseases with tests when we finish documenting. -- Beland (talk) 23:52, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Material to be merged elsewhere 

message: Is the following news item (or related) worth mentioning in the article - or not?
On June 4, 2014, researchers announced that, for the first time, the cause of an illness was diagnosed with a DNA test.< ref name="NYT-20140604"></ref>< ref name="NEJM-20140604"></ref>
In any case - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 13:21, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: NO It is blatantly false.  maybe the first time for nextgen whole genome sequencing used to diagnose something on the fly like this.   DNA tests have been used clinically for years - the blurb as written is embarassingly wrong.   I don't have time to read and digest the source right now and check others - even the NY Times can be wrong on "first" things sometimes. Jytdog (talk) 13:25, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: @ - Thanks for your reply - no problem whatsoever - maybe this can be all sorted out at some better opportunity - in any case - Thanks again - and Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 13:42, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  DNA test diagnosis 

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message: Can it be described that genetic testing could be used for partner selection purposes (New eugenics) ?
The idea here is that online dating services could be used to share genetic testing results (whole genome or whole exome sequence) which can then be used to see whether both partners are compatible (ensuring that genetic diseases have a very small chance of occurring on children of that couple, if they were to form a couple at all). This can be determined through the principles established by Mendel (see Mendelian inheritance). So basically, a sort of IVF/PGD approach, but then focusing on the genetic makeup of the partners, rather then examining the genetics of the embryo, ...
Perhaps it can be further looked into and dscribed at the page.
--Genetics4good (talk) 10:55, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Genetic testing for partner selection

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