Ellen Matloff, a certified genetic counselor and president and CEO of My Gene Counsel, explains that, “Some patients who had 23andMe testing believed that they had been screened for all mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2. In reality, they had only been screened for the three common Jewish BRCA mutations – a result which is almost meaningless in anyone not of Jewish ancestry.”
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