Is There Still More We Don't Know Than We Do?

There's kind of this spectrum. And to put it simply basically, there are some very, very rare genetic diseases where if you inherit this certain mutigen or combination of mutingenes, you will almost definitely develop that disease. What's obviously a lot more common are things like heart disease, diabedes,. And these are very complex, and they involve lots of different genes and very subtle effects. So we have ways of looking specifically for individual mutations for these really deadly, rare diseases. Then we also have ways of look more broadly at these more subtle differences, which any individual, one of them won't definitely cause a disease.

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