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Conversely, there are certain conditions such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which may not manifest fully until age 15 or 16.  So we may not find anything at the age of 10 or 11 in someone who’s got a potentially serious condition.  So there’s this concern that I have of issuing false positives and even more importantly, false negatives in people aged under 14.  We use 14 as a cut off on the assumption that most people at that age are into puberty and we’ll be able to provide a correct answer at the end of our screening.