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Genetic Testing Overview
It provides a reference for the examinees and medical researchers to evaluate diseases, constitutions or individual characteristics related to genetic inheritance from the perspective of chromosome structure, DNA sequence, DNA variation sites or gene expression level. It is also a method of precision medicine analysis. Everyone's DNA genes are unique individual information, resulting in different innate constitutions, health conditions and characteristics for each person.
In 2008, Time magazine in the United States selected this revolutionary technology as the best innovation of 2008.
Genetic testing applications
Since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2000, more and more gene functions have been successfully interpreted, and more than 2,000 gene-related diseases have been discovered. Now, more than 700 gene-related diseases have developed corresponding drugs and treatment methods. Including cancer and many rare diseases, the development and application of their drugs are in progress.
At present, the technology of genetic testing has gradually matured. In addition to being used in diagnosis and treatment, the detected genotypes can even be used to predict the risk of diseases that have not yet occurred through digital statistics based on the content of the database.
1. Identity identification/parent-child relationship identification/ancestry tracing
2. Diagnosis and screening of single gene/chromosome genetic diseases
3. Clinical preventive medicine: genetic testing of polygenic genetic diseases
4. Clinical personalized medicine: pharmacogenomics
5. Congenital constitution/trait potential analysis