DNA HEALTH SCREENING TESTS are booming: in the US around 25% of the population are believed to have taken a commercial genetic test. Now the saliva tests that are sent off to a laboratory for DNA analysis are taking off in the UK, too. You may even have had one for Christmas.
Who wouldn’t be intrigued to know more about their DNA? Rory Larkin, chef and HFG nutritionist, certainly was – enough to pay £149 to the website 23andme.com last year to have the test. He was a bit sceptical about what it could tell him, however.