Mapping your genome & designing your life is now possible at your fingertips
Dr Aseeb CP, Founder-CEO at Genes&U
Genetics has revolutionized the world we see today. Today, we can predict your kid's personality, intelligent quotient, emotional quotient, talents and athletic performance before he gets into school. Genetics has now taken us into the postmodern era, creating a new stream of genetic science called 'predictive genomics' that can predict lifestyle diseases, clinical disorders and even cancer years before it can take birth. Predictive genomics is, however, a once in a lifetime test, that gives you the route map of life, helping you to prolong your illness with a better lifestyle and prepare money in advance for your medical insurance with utmost certainty.
Predictive genomics doesn't end there, it even discovers the drugs that suit our genome the most, out of many that are available in the market and even the type of diet that suits your genome. In the past, we became aware of our health, diet, drugs and personality until it became problematic for us or others. But today, we scientifically predict all the negative and positive outcomes of our health, diet, drugs, personality and life as a whole with predictive genomics. For example, a lot of parents struggle with the problem of lactose intolerance in their kids from age 5, a condition in which their body is very sensitive to lactose and triggers symptoms like abdominal pain, diarrhoea or vomiting when they take milk. With predictive genomics we can confirm this before the age of 5 and switch to lactose free products in their diet.
Our body is made of trillions of cells. Our cells contain a nucleus as its brain while the nucleus contains many ribbon-shaped chromosomes. Chromosomes are coiled by DNA. A single gram of DNA contains 215 million gigabytes of information. DNA is made of genes as its structural and functional unit. The genes, in turn, are made of 4 different nucleotides, namely adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymidine in diverse combinations. It is the variation in these nucleotides that make us all unique. For example, the MC1R gene mutation gives us red hair.
The DNA card that incorporates all the genetic code of customers introduced for the first time in India by GENES & U.
This variation called SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) is what predictive genomics measure using US-based 'microarray technology' by experienced geneticists. Each individual is unique from one to another not only in fingerprints but also in your genetic variations. Your genome controls everything and no one can have the same genetic variations as you do. This makes you entirely unique as a whole, from others.