genetic testing

[Guest guest]

Hi Jill,

> Sue, it might be worth spending the $200 to buy the DVD's from the

> 2004 conference by Yasko, Gordon and other doctors. I have to review

> the last DVD I watched again, as I only absorbed about half. Its very

> technical. There are 8 DVDs in all.

You wrote this last June.

I've printed out the power point presentation by Amy Yasko, but without

accompanying words I'm not able to understand everything. There is

also an audio online of one of her presentations, but I can't get the

volume up to where I can hear it. Do you still think I should buy the

DVDs, or should I just go ahead and try to get the tests for my

daughter?

My concern now is that the website that sells the three genetic tests

doesn't offer anything in the way of analysis or explanation--or at

least, not that I can find. I'd really like for my daughter to do the

tests, so I've e-mailed them with questions.

> Blake, are those only methylation genes [in the Yasko test]?

> Theoretically then one might get the basic test here and also the

> genovations tests that got...or some of Dr Shoemaker's tests.

> To see if you have mold genes, biotoxin genes, glutathione genes, and

> methylation genes, as well as HLA subtypes associated with lyme.

That sounds like a good plan to me. I see that Genovations at least

gives a boilerplate analysis.

Here's something interesting about the cost of genetic testing, from

the Nov. 7 2005 Newsweek:

" Since the HapMap's initiation three years ago, the price of analyzing

a single SNP has fallen from 50 cents t less than a penny, so more labs

can participate. New technology has sped up the process, too. 'A lot

of people have spent the last 10 or 20 years waiting for this

moment...[but] most of them didn't think it would come this soon, " says

. 'The pace has been unbelievable.' Believe it. "

Sue ,

Upstate New York