Have you ever thought about the future of human genetics? Or how one day their might be a cure for some of the most common diseases in the world today like diabetes to alzheimer's. Well the time has come for Genomic Medicine to really shine bright with all the new advances that have been made in the world of medicine. Scientists are using their knowledge of entire genomes plus environmental factors in populations of people to understand common medical conditions. There are millions of differences among individuals in a population called their snps(SNPs-small variants) and cnps(CNPs-large variants). Mutations in DNA variants that are pathological cause diseases or cancers. So technically we are all mutants, with each generation 60 new mutations are created. 99.6% of all humans DNA sequences are identical with only 0.4% differentiation. So think of it this way, there are 24,000,000 variations in DNA sequences between any two people. By scientists understanding the way our DNA sequences are made they can determine whether people with the same common disease, say diabetes, have the same unique set of DNA variants in common. If these people have the same SNPs and CNPs scientists are finding ways to be able to fix the SNPS and CNPs that have mutated into the disease itself. When they have conquered this step it will lead to so many more opportunities to curing diseases that people are faced with every day. The goal, no more diseases.
Have you ever thought about the future of human genetics? Or how one day their might be a cure for some of the most common diseases in the world today like diabetes to alzheimer's. Well the time has come for Genomic Medicine to really shine bright with all the new advances that have been made in the world of medicine. Scientists are using their knowledge of entire genomes plus environmental factors in populations of people to understand common medical conditions. There are millions of differences among individuals in a population called their snps(SNPs-small variants) and cnps(CNPs-large variants). Mutations in DNA variants that are pathological cause diseases or cancers. So technically we are all mutants, with each generation 60 new mutations are created. 99.6% of all humans DNA sequences are identical with only 0.4% differentiation. So think of it this way, there are 24,000,000 variations in DNA sequences between any two people. By scientists understanding the way our DNA sequences are made they can determine whether people with the same common disease, say diabetes, have the same unique set of DNA variants in common. If these people have the same SNPs and CNPs scientists are finding ways to be able to fix the SNPS and CNPs that have mutated into the disease itself. When they have conquered this step it will lead to so many more opportunities to curing diseases that people are faced with every day. The goal, no more diseases.
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