Recently I got my genome test done and some surprising results. Humans are 99.5% the same. Yet that 0.5% difference matters. Based on my experience I am getting my wife and three kids also tested.Why test genetics?
Your skin color, body size, hair type, and predisposition to specific illnesses all depend on how your genes interact with your environment.If we know more about our genetic variants, we might be able to adjust our lifestyle in order to prevent some illnesses or become healthier.
For eg, certain gene variants can tell us how food is metabolized. Others can tell us whether or not carcinogens in cooked meats will influence the development of colon and prostate cancers. And others can predict inflammatory response and efficiency of DNA repair/replication.
What can genetic screening tell you?
Tell you how effective certain lifestyle interventions will be for you.
Identify a rare disease.
Show risk of future disease, such as arrhythmias, cancers, heart failure, Alzheimer’s, aneurysms and strokes, Type 2 diabetes, etc.
Tell you how effective certain lifestyle interventions will be for you.
Identify a rare disease.
Show risk of future disease, such as arrhythmias, cancers, heart failure, Alzheimer’s, aneurysms and strokes, Type 2 diabetes, etc.
Show current diseases: However, be aware that some associations between gene variants and diseases are based on older genetic mapping systems, so be prepared to do some research.
Identify diseases that you carry but which don’t affect you.
Identify diseases that you carry but which don’t affect you.
Along with shaping potential food choices, genetic screening may also be useful in exercise prescriptions. Specific genes have been identified with athletic performance and muscle size. I know now that my genes support endurance sports like long run and not sprinting
Also can tell you which medicine group works best for your treatment and which doesn't. So it can help your doctors prescribe. Genetic screening may show us the way to individualized nutrition and exercise prescriptions
The limitations : At this point, we simply haven’t identified all possible gene variants.That’s because knowing our DNA sequence alone isn’t enough. The human genome is complex and repetitive.We are not quite there yet.
However, having access to knowledge about our genotype brings a new level of self-responsibility. It’s hard to predict how we’ll act when given potentially life-changing information.
I got my genome test done with mapmygenome.in @mapmygenome and had negotiated a 50% discount on the cost for anyone using the code SANDSOFF Disclaimer: Have no financial or any link with them. Trying to leverage my 35000 followers. And I paid full when I got my test done
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