Would you take a test to proactively find out your risk of a disease? This is the question News Corp worked with us to explore in a new piece of research.  

The types of tests they were interested in? Polygenic risk scores (PRS).  

PRS analyses the estimated effect of many genetic variants on an individual's risk for a specific disease or trait.  

Most Australians have never heard of PRS — but once they do, many want one. 

Just over one in ten (11%) of Australians knew what these genetic tests were, when asked by Lonergan Research on behalf of News Corp. But, once they’d learned what they were, nearly three-quarters said they would consider getting a test to assess their own health risks. 

You can read more about the research here at the Herald Sun here:  

What are polygenic risk scores? Aussies share how test revealed disease risk | Herald Sun