Which of the following is FALSE?
A. Most people initially want to take presymptomatic 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 believes that most people today cannot get good counseling before they take a presymptomatic test for Huntington's.
D. About a decade has passed between the discovery of the marker for Huntington's disease (and a linkage test) and the discovery of the actual gene for Huntington's.
E. Nancy Wexler and the other leaders of medical genetics believe that genetic testing is best conceptualized as a family issue, not as a personal, individual issue.
Answer: B
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