On mapping your genes

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I've been getting some cutting edge insight on a genes workshop. So much stuff I didn't know. On whole genome sequencing, genetic counselling, recent developments, screening methods, diagnostic tools, storing biological material - biobanks, cancers, cf, fh, mutations on genes. Quite fascinating.

I really had nothing good to say about my genetic history so kept my mouth shut. You could be denied life insurance if your genetic test show susceptibility to certain disease states. My family history is really bad and I'm thinking, would a genetic test change anything?

Probably not. My pedigree: both my grandpas died in their 40s, grandma a couple decades later. Most of my uncles are dead (in their 40s and 50s; n=4). Aunts are alive. Ma and sibling have very high blood pressure and take daily treatment. Sibling and I were asthmatic. I have allergies, hayfever, eczema, cysts, tumour, deformity and aspergers. Not to mention my folks and their health condition. It would be unethical to raise a family with my genome.

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have you participated here

The goal of the United Genomes Project is to develop a comprehensive open genetic database of African populations and an educational platform for training students and scientists on the use of genetic data in medicine, a new field of medicine called genomic medicine.

http://www.unitedgenomes.org/

With United Genomes, Siwo joins the ranks of citizen science advocates like David Baker, who uses games to predict the structure of proteins, and the ILIAD Project, which asks citizen scientists to test plants and other specimens for antibiotic properties. Critics of the citizen science movement question the rigor of data collected by amateurs. But there are clear advantages to crowdsourcing genetic data, especially when it comes to data from African countries. Less than 10 percent of available genetic data come from Africans, Siwo says, and building out a database could lead to better information and better medicine for not only Africans, but also all other races.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2014/10/02/ozy-crowdsourcing-cures/16547153/

given half of african victims of ebola are surviving the virus and the survivors serum is the best shot so far ..... african govts need to take genetics projects seriously and stop nonsense about IFAS, tetanus vaccines

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No I haven't.

World genome project is supposedly the next big thing. They were showing us iPad apps and how we can visit their labs, register our genes for their projects and such. Excited over gene mapping, sliding their wiggly fingers here and there across their iPads. After that workshop I just wanted to go home and not ever be involved in any type of genetic research. . penetrance alleles represent on average less than 10% of disorders. It's a small number compared to somatic or acquired disorders. Psychologists say nature/nurture 50/50. Geneticists say like less than 5% are from genes. Most of phenotypes are acquired.

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I've been getting some cutting edge insight on a genes workshop. So much stuff I didn't know. On whole genome sequencing, genetic counselling, recent developments, screening methods, diagnostic tools, storing biological material - biobanks, cancers, cf, fh, mutations on genes. Quite fascinating.

I really had nothing good to say about my genetic history so kept my mouth shut. You could be denied life insurance if your genetic test show susceptibility to certain disease states. My family history is really bad and I'm thinking, would a genetic test change anything?

Probably not. My pedigree: both my grandpas died in their 40s, grandma a couple decades later. Most of my uncles are dead (in their 40s and 50s; n=4). Aunts are alive. Ma and sibling have very high blood pressure and take daily treatment. Sibling and I were asthmatic. I have allergies, hayfever, eczema, cysts, tumour, deformity and aspergers. Not to mention my folks and their health condition. It would be unethical to raise a family with my genome.

you probably forgot ebola , hiv and mad cow
With this kind of history, you should be banned by law from having a family...shida tupu

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Yup. Prone to breaking bones. I've broken a cheek bone, couple ribs.. now ankle.