What is Genetic testing and DNA analysis and what is diffeance?
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As a bioinformatician: both terms are rather non-specific, but “genetic testing” is typically used for any medical diagnostic test to look for genetic markers for disease, such as things associated with cancer or rare hereditary diseases.
“DNA analysis” broadly means any lab or computer method that looks at DNA molecules or DNA sequence information. It could be comparing the genomes of different species to determine how related they are, trying to associate disease diagnoses in medical records with specific genes or gene variants, determining a person’s ancestry, looking for mutations in genes to explain a disease, sequencing a genome, … anything, really.
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