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[[Ponytail]] [[1839|continues]] [[Cueball]]'s medical checkup with a genetic test. {{w|Genetic test}}s show people genetic diseases that they might be at risk for and/or give them insight into their ancestry. In this case, the genetic results are extremely obvious: His genes are part of a long line of genes stretching back to some of the earliest life forms to have genes. This information is universally true - ''every'' known organism has such a genetic history - which makes it so vague as to be useless for either medicine or ancestry.
 
[[Ponytail]] [[1839|continues]] [[Cueball]]'s medical checkup with a genetic test. {{w|Genetic test}}s show people genetic diseases that they might be at risk for and/or give them insight into their ancestry. In this case, the genetic results are extremely obvious: His genes are part of a long line of genes stretching back to some of the earliest life forms to have genes. This information is universally true - ''every'' known organism has such a genetic history - which makes it so vague as to be useless for either medicine or ancestry.
  
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In epidemiology, a risk factor is a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection. The title text says that this is a risk factor because being a living organism is, trivially, associated with every disease that exists.
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In epidemiology, a risk factor is a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection. The title text says that this is a risk factor because being a living human being is, trivially, associated with every disease that could possibly afflict human beings.
  
 
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