Host: Paul Raeburn

Guest: Amy McGuire, PhD

If you are at increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, would you want to know? What if you carry a gene that doesn’t affect you, but could affect your children? Would you want to know then? Within a few years, it will be possible to sequence your genome for about a thousand dollars. Patients will be walking into doctors' offices with printouts of their genomes, asking what it means. Will physicians have the answers? An ethicist at Baylor College of Medicine tells us what to expect. Hosted by Paul Raeburn.