A new study presented at the National Society of Genetic Counselors annual meeting has raised doubts ... [+] about the accuracy of direct-to-consumer genetic tests for predicting Covid-19 infection or severity. gettyAccording to a new study, genetic tests promising to evaluate a person’s risk of contracting severe Covid-19 provide inconsistent results and are not based on established scientific information. The remaining two tests claimed to predict the risk of severe Covid-19 symptoms, but these showed even more variability than the three tests supposedly predicting risk of infection. However, one test said the person had lower than average risk of severe Covid-19, while another test said the same person had higher risk for severe Covid-19 symptoms. Even with regard to specific genetic variants, the tests did not always agree on what the implications of these were.

Source: Forbes September 26, 2021 13:18 UTC