Preventing the Unknown: Genetic Testing with Dr. Stuart Kim

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Can you predict your future health using genetics? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore advances in genetic testing, polygenic risk scores, and the future of genetics with geneticist Dr. Stuart Kim.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	This is Star Talk Sports Edition.
0:16.0	Neil deGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.
0:20.0	And today, we're on the topic of genetics.
0:25.0	And I got with me, my co-host, Darry O'Reilly.
0:29.0	Gary.
0:30.0	Hey, Neil.
0:31.0	All right, former soccer pro over the UK, turned an answer, and he's sharing his time with us.
0:37.0	And I still can't stop thinking of your wiki page.
0:41.0	A great shot of you and with your sexy legs playing soccer.
0:45.0	That's scull you for life.
0:48.0	And of course, Chuck, nice, Chuck, you baby, how you doing, man?
0:51.0	Hey, Neil, what's happening?
0:53.0	No, no pictures of my sexy legs anyway.
0:56.0	Chuck has no sports street cred at all.
1:00.0	I ate us.
1:01.0	It's a big fan, fan of sports, that's all right.
1:04.0	It's enough, but no sport without the fans.
1:06.0	That's very good.
1:08.0	The whole thing is without me, it doesn't exist.
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