In the your way : immediate analysis to detect the genetic code

Was not possible to Francis Collins, who helped map the human genome an analysis of the genes is personally until last summer. What surprised known. Collins found that it is willing to diabetes type II, which has not suspected at all. And found the former director of the National Institute for Human Genome Research this through research provided by companies such as Navigenics and Naviginieks Twente RICH & Me 23andMe and Dikodomi DecodeMe charged to the customer a few hundred dollars for a look at the genetic composition. He said: "tested with the three companies because I wanted to see if they are going to give me the same answer ... We all agreed that the degree of my exposure to diabetes high." After learning that information and reduced weight 25 pounds at the end. But as a rule is not considered these tests are particularly useful .. At least not yet. He said: "We can not deny that family history may be the best bet you have not cost anything." This is the case in the nascent field of genome research. Some experts say the world is on the verge of "golden age" of genomics will reveal when the advent of DNA on the blade of your over the possibility of cancer, diabetes or heart disease and to predict which drugs will work with you. However, the global human genome project, which cost three billion dollars, which completed the first phase of a decade ago did not lead to diagnosis or a product has achieved stunning success. Certainly, there have been some encouraging glances Examples include: - Blood test can determine whether the cancer has spread to a patient or the patient's back. And discovered by Dr. Bert Voglstein from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and colleagues parts of the DNA in the tumors of the colon and breast cancer carry extra copies of DNA or chromosomes are integrated with each other. - Test is based on the examination of genes called X Onkutayb de Oncotype DX conducted by company Genumik Health Genomic Health helps identify breast cancer patients who are unlikely to benefit at all from chemotherapy. But Collins describes this as the achievements of easy investigation. He says that hard work has just begun. The area has become somewhat a victim of what have seen success. Companies try to reduce the cost of scanning sequence and compete on the production of the device, which will be located in each plant biotechnology as one of the fixed equipment to conduct a full survey of the genome sequence of the person on the spot. But this survey of the sequence of the genome creates what he calls the current director of the National Institute for Research on Human Genome Eric Green as a "tsunami of information" that plague the minds of scientists and energy computers. The irony is that humans have relatively few actual genes are parts of DNA which directs the cell to produce the protein. Does not have the people only 20500 of them for up to 30 thousand in rats and 50 thousand in the rice. This was one of the big surprises of the draft human genome. As a result, some of the most important information is what came to be called "epigenetic areas", which represent two thirds of the genetic code of human beings. Collins said: "There is this dark matter of the genome inherent in waiting for disclosure." And started part of the search in a building in west London, where he lines up volunteers to uncover the secrets buried. While many people donate blood by this time, they volunteer Bhamadhm nuclear and medical records of past and future to experience tremendous Sttakbhm to death. This seems ridiculous. The volunteers who register themselves in the UK Biobank, backed by the government and the Wellcome Trust, Wellcome Trust are keen to participate in something that may benefit their children or grandchildren. The choice fell on the age group ranging between 40 and 69 years because of volunteers, researchers will not have to wait too long to be infected with diseases interesting, such as cancer or arthritis or diabetes or heart disease or dementia. And till now about 450 thousand British themselves and agreed to undertake a survey of DNA sequences have their health and follow-up without revealing their names through the National Health Service. Lead researcher Roy Collins said the sampling on a large scale like this is the only way to enable scientists to discover how you react to factors related to lifestyle with a long list of variables to cause a rare genetic diseases are common. He added: "If we look for the impact of many, many different genetic variants that have caused a moderate and interact with a lot of non-genetic factors, we must be able to make very, very large studies ... did not allow the technology to conduct such testing is only now." China has established and Sweden and other countries banks vital but the British bank is the most comprehensive with regard to the number of factors that are taught.