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Is he really claiming that BRCA1/2 variants don’t increase risk of breast cancer...

Even worse, if insurance companies had their way, they'd use the family matriarch's BRCA1/2 variant to set the rates for all her descendants. Massive DNA profiling doesn't just impact the "owner" of the DNA - it impacts anybody in their family tree who might have similar genes.


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