Health Beat
Home DNA Tests Might Be Inaccurate

7/23/2010

The accuracy of home DNA tests that involve people sending saliva samples off to discover their risk for assorted illnesses could be wildly inaccurate. That's the claim of government investigators who sent saliva samples from five people to four unnamed genetic testing companies. The tests produced inconsistent results for the same disease 68% of the time.

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