What Causes Somatic Symptom Disorder?
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- An inherited susceptibility for the disorder
No screening is only usefull for diseases with a clear and curing treatment, all others will maybe offer a bit of prevention but will make your life as a hypochonder hell.I was thinking it might be useful to be screened for all the genetic disorders. If I'm genetically predisposed to hypochondriasis, @Null can't fault me for it.
The whole personalized medicine idea is very cool, however quite hard to maintain. I think we'll end up with a few types of medicine and not true personalized variants (keeping more then 10, types of medicine in production for a single disease is not easy) Also I would say it requires more than a single sequencing of somatic DNA to figure it out, in the case of cancer for instance you need to sequence the cancer preferably also it's epigenetic markers and copy numbers allelic duplications/deletions and so forth.One of the advantages I read about those DNA test is not that you know you might have a increased risk of getting that illness (which is useful) but which medication has a higher likelihood of working for you.
So if there would be a system of being pro-active with tips regarding prevention and curing based on your specific DNA, that would be very nice.
Personally I think your DNA is really tied to your privacy, so I wouldn't opt to do such a test if it's in some public database if there wasn't a good reason to do so.
So there would be some hurdles for a company to take before a good database could be presented that could be used without worrying about your privacy.
What I read wasn't that they customize the medication itself, but rather a selection of existing medication including dosage. So it would more be like skipping the line of investigations and get directly to the cure.The whole personalized medicine idea is very cool, however quite hard to maintain. I think we'll end up with a few types of medicine and not true personalized variants (keeping more then 10, types of medicine in production for a single disease is not easy) Also I would say it requires more than a single sequencing of somatic DNA to figure it out, in the case of cancer for instance you need to sequence the cancer preferably also it's epigenetic markers and copy numbers allelic duplications/deletions and so forth.
Even without a DNA test you already know there is a high risk of cancer, it's like 2nd cause of death in United States / Europe.She told me she had a CHEK2 mutation, which is generally bad news. This doesn't guarantee I have it, but if I do, I would be at higher risk for cancer. She mentioned breast and colon cancer, but apparently there have been links to prostate, lung, kidney, thyroid, and brain cancers as well.
Yes but you can only get so much from a sequence, it would be better if you could test on tissue culture or organoids.What I read wasn't that they customize the medication itself, but rather a selection of existing medication including dosage. So it would more be like skipping the line of investigations and get directly to the cure.
Might be interesting. Do you have a specific purpose in mind other than curiosity?I'm thinking about getting one of those DNA ethnicity tests.
Mostly just that. It is some hard facts to know about yourself and might at least be conversation material.Might be interesting. Do you have a specific purpose in mind other than curiosity?