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Validity/weight of Artera and Decipher Tests

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@jeffmarc It is an RNA genetic expression test, or if you don't like the word genetics, call it RNA expression test or whatever. But there are still thousands of genes that they don't know what the expression of those genes do or prevent or help or hinder or make it slow or fast or any other terms, basically they don't know. Yet the money they get at this point should be going to get to know the other thousands of potential expressions and what they do, and it doesn't appear to be doing that as the test hasn't changed in years. It is the same math, just ok you can use differing words.
Also factors alter expression of genes, a bad gene but no factors allowing it to express and it means nothing since the gene expression is hindered. Conversely a not so bad looking gene but lots of factors and the cell goes ahead and expresses a lot and maybe bad things happen. At least what I have read it is too open ended, of course maybe I haven't read enough, but for sure it seems to not be progressing. Sure there is a lot of support since it gets paid for by insurance mostly, but the money going to Decipher isn't making progress since I haven't seem much change.

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They actually refer to them as genomic tests, not genetic tests.

I was just trying to make sure people that are not knowledgeable realize that there is a separate genetic test for hereditary genes, Or even genetic changes in their tissue or blood with a somatic test.