On the steep slope of plummeting DNA sequencing costs rides the suggestion that whole-genome sequencing will soon be a part of the clinical experience for most patients. But researchers have now shown that deciphering the genetic code of most people would alert them to an increased risk for at least one of 24 common diseases, but fail to warn them about other diseases they will ultimately develop.
It's not easy to predict the ultimate usefulness of medical genomics, in part because the field is so young and not widely adopted. The researchers estimated the potential of the technique to alter a patient's lifestyle and medical treatment by studying disease rates from identical twins.
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