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Health Tips From Your Own DNA

Researchers' test may show whether you're prone to heart disease, cancer.

ByABC News
January 8, 2009, 1:03 AM

Aug. 21, 2007 — -- New mom Melissa Christensen runs marathons and eats her vegetables, but during a DNA mapping test she learned she is still a candidate for heart disease, diabetes and osteoporosis.

The healthy 30-year-old said the test gave her a health warning straight from her own DNA.


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