Will genetic data inspire healthy lifestyle changes in Finland? Tessa Bunney/In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty
Thousands of people in Finland will soon find out their genetic risk of developing common conditions such as type 2 diabetes, in a national bid to encourage healthy lifestyle changes.
Many countries are beginning to dabble with using genetic data to predict citizens’ chances of developing common diseases, but Finland is an international leader, forging ahead with one of the largest ever trials of this kind.
This has involved sequencing the genomes of around 3400 volunteers and analysing these in search of hundreds of gene…
