http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A 23andMe study of consumers' reactions to genetic testing found that even when the tests revealed high-risk mutations in individuals, those individuals had few negative reactions to the news. Instead of inducing serious anxiety, the test results prompted people to take positive steps, including follow-up visits with a doctor and discussions with family members who could also be at risk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-consumers-negative-reactions-results-genetic.html Cancer Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:20:10 EST news279875934 (Medical Xpress)—Cilantro or coriander as it's known in Britain and some other places, is a leafy green herb commonly used in Mexican food and has a history of having one of those kinds of flavors that people either love or hate. Those that love it say it adds a certain zest to an otherwise bland mix of spices; those that hate it say it tastes like dirt or worse, soap. The question of why there is such a different reaction though, is one that has been asked, but unsatisfactorily answered over many years. Now, new research by a team at genetics firm 23andMe indicates that there may be a genetic link. After taking genetic samples and querying nearly 30,000 people, the team says they believe that part of the reason some people hate cilantro so much is because of a simple gene variant. They have written a paper describing their findings and have uploaded it to the preprint server arXiv. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-genetic-link-cilantro-coriander.html Genetics Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:40:01 EST news266739565 Patients see potential benefits from direct-to-consumer genetic testing, but are also concerned about how test results will be used, and generally are unwilling to pay more than $10 or $20 for them, according to focus groups conducted by researchers at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-patients-benefits-direct-to-consumer-genetics.html Genetics Thu, 10 May 2012 14:53:21 EST news255880394 Using its unique online research platform, 23andMe, a leading personal genetics company, has found five significant genetic associations for hypothyroidism in the largest known genome-wide association study of hypothyroidism conducted to date. The details of the study are now available online in the journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-23andme-significant-genetic-associations-hypothyroidism.html Genetics Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:21:01 EST news253185645 Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests give inaccurate predictions of disease risks and many European geneticists believe that some of them should be banned, the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics will hear today (Tuesday). In the first of two studies to be presented, Rachel Kalf, from the department of epidemiology at Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, will say that her research is the first to look at the real predictive ability of such tests, the results of which are available directly to an individual without having to go through a healthcare professional. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-dtc-genetic-accurate-beneficial-individuals.html Genetics Mon, 30 May 2011 18:00:01 EST news225988210