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Published online 21 October 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1182
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Give me my genome
Personal genome sequences could herald a shift in research participation.
Eight of the ten people taking part in an experimental genome-sequencing project said yesterday that they would post all of their genetic and medical data on the Internet for anyone to see. By doing so, the participants could be on the leading edge of a rethink of standard clinical-research rules that prevent most research subjects from learning the results of investigations in which they participate.
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Our technological Age is clearly illustrated in this statement:"The ten people are taking part in the Personal Genome Project, which aims to increase understanding about the usefulness of individual genetic data and the effects on patients' lives and society". Do you really ignore that every gene mutation parallels biological system modification? For instance, read: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080604/full/453709a.html?q=2#last-comment Really, thanks to Quantum Biophysical Semeiotics, a paramount clinical investigation method, I discovered a lot of constitutions and related inherited real risks, bedside recognizable rapidly with a stethoscope,conditio sine qua non of most common and severe human diseases. Due to such as precious CLINICAL tool, physicians now-a-days are (or could be...) able to bedside evaluate the majority of functions of different biological sistems, as beta-cells of Langherans's isles. Admittedly, such as Genetic testing for everyone is feasable in developed western countries, rather than in underdeveloped and developing ones! As a consequence, in presence of genetic alterations, secondary to mutation of one or more genes, physicians can assess the dysfunctions, which parallel the former, genetic modifications, bedside evaluating the structure and flcutations of related micorcirculatory bed, according to Angiobiopathy, doctors can bedside evaluate also in a easy manner. In fact, all gene mutations bring about modification of parechymal anathomy and functions, as I illustrated in my website. From the above brief remarks, utilizing a simple stethoscope, doctor can recognize since birth in quantitative way, e.g., individuals predisposed to diabetes, cancer and CAD.