THE PRO'S OF GETTING YOUR GENOME SEQUENCED

By getting your genome sequenced, you could potentially prevent a disease from occurring in your body. This could lead to obvious benefits, such as living longer and feeling better. It would give you the opportunity to be more proactive in your health.


Here are some popular diseases that can be detected by genome sequencing:

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• Alzheimer disease - increased risk from variations of the APOE gene APOE gene. (APOE gene, 2014).

• Breast Cancer - BRCA gene

• Leukemia cells of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia contain a mutated gene called BCR-ABL

• Prostate Cancer - a mutation in a gene called HOXB13
  
  (Genome.gov, 2013)