September Rocket City MS MeetUp

We will attend the Hudson Alpha presentation "DNA and Disease Risk" for our September meeting.
Location: The Jackson Center, 6001 Moquin Drive Northwest, Huntsville, AL
Time: 6:00 pm
Registration: HudsonAlpha U Nights: Understanding DNA and Disease Risk - Campaign

Join us for an engaging, hands-on evening that makes complex genetics easy to understand—and exciting to explore.

Your DNA is like a recipe book for your body—and within its pages are countless changes that can influence your health. For many common conditions like heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer’s, risk isn’t determined by a single DNA change, but by a combination of many genetic factors, each contributing a small part to the bigger picture.
By combining all these factors together, you could gain a clearer picture of how your risk of developing a particular disease stacks up. That’s where polygenic risk scores come in. By combining information from across the genome, these scores can help estimate genetic risk for certain diseases—opening the door to more personalized, proactive approaches to health and medicine.