New genetic tests can predict the development of diseases
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Genetic testing — quite popular today method of diagnosis
It is known to prevent the disease — much easier than fighting the illness or its consequence. Today, there are a number of tests like blood sampling, MRI and other diagnostic procedures that can detect early signs of pathologic processes. However, the last time gaining popularity of genetic testing, which gives the possibility to predict the occurrence of a disease long before its symptoms. One of these is from the company's Ancestry.
How to get genetic testing
American company Ancestry still 2012 launched AncestryDNA, and since they managed to attract to its platform, about 15 million users. They were thus able to collect «genetic database» a variety of diseases and produce the sequencing of the genomes of many people to identify that cause the development of a pathologic process. For comparison, the closest competitor of Ancestry — the project 23andMe has only 10 million users. Now (so far only in the U.S.), the release of new product — AncestryHealth. He will assess health risks based on the analysis .
To Order a genetic test Ancestry will be more difficult than a similar service in other similar companies — according to a press release from Ancestry. The client will have to answer a series of questions about their health, about family history of disease and so on. This data is sent to the physician for evaluation. In addition, the man checked on various medical databases. It allows to cut off people for whom genetic tests are not suitable and will not show reliable results. For example, this type of people include patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation.
Test AncestryHealth reveals in the genome that increase the risk of developing certain types of cancer (particularly breast, uterine and colon), the risk of high cholesterol, sugar and iron, and conditions such as cardiomyopathy and other heart diseases, increased blood clotting and so on. Also, the test determines whether a person is a carrier of the recessive (that is not currently active, but which can be transmitted to offspring) genes sickle-cell anemia, cystic fibrosis and Tay-Sachs. Would you undergo genetic testing? Or do you think it an unnecessary procedure? Write your feedback in our
The Test is available in two versions. AncestryHealth Core will cost 149 USD and searches only strictly certain diseases, the risk of which are detected at the time of talking with the doctor. AncestryHealth Plus is already $ 199 and searches for all available pathologies. At the moment the service works only in the U.S., but the company's plans is an expansion to the European market.
the Set to perform a number of procedures for passing the test
In addition to genetic testing, AncestryHealth will allow users to create a family genealogical tree that illustrate their health and that of their ancestors and relatives.
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