Which of the Following Is False

question 3

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is false?

• A) Most people initially want to take pre-symptomatic tests for genetic disease to find out that they do not have the gene for the disease.
• B) After the people at risk for Huntington's disease are counseled, most of them today take the test.
• C) Nancy Wexler and other leaders of medical genetics believe that genetic testing is best conceptualized as a family issue, not as a personal, individual issue.
• D) Nancy Wexler believes that most people today cannot get good counseling before they take a pre-symptomatic test for Huntington's.
• E) About a decade passed between discovery of the marker for Huntington's disease (and a linkage test) and discovery of the actual gene for Huntington's 161.