The rapid progress in human genome -based technologies has intensified the integration of genomics in clinical practice. Genomix has shown clinical utility as a diagnostic tool for some diseases, but its potential for population screening continues. In principle, DNA -based population screening can identify people with unusual pathogenic variations, which are at greater risk of preventable diseases and disability and can benefit from initial intervention. In addition, the population of general variations can help diagnose and prevent risk diagnosis and prevention for common diseases for individuals with high polygunic risk, to identify some genetic career for the reproductive planning, and help to use some of the core careers to live up to a lifetime. Since we all have genetic variation in many genes, the genomic screening can affect large parts of the population.
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Nevertheless, before implementing the DNA -based population screening, various desired use needs to be strictly reviewed and answers to many questions about moral, legal, social, financial and implementation issues. These topics have been resolved by several authors and has been summarized in previous blog posts.
Why focus on rare pathogenic variations in population screening?
Newborn screening is a very successful public health program that has improved the results of many rare genetic diseases that are associated with long -term disease, disability and death. In the United States, newborn screening identifies> 13 000 every year, which requires early intervention and lifetime care. Newborn screening mainly relies on biochemicals, physical, and other tests, and not DNA -based analysis, though the genome setting is currently being actively associated with other testing methods.
Using a newborn screening rationality for rare disorders, which has a special combination of features (serious results, effective prevention of diseases and disability, asymmetic and a cheap examination), James Evans and Quarters have suggested that the result of the inferiority of the population was unprecedented in 2013. He called for a new partnership between genomics and public health communities to fake it. This partnership will fully focus on common diseases to identify these people, but overall, 1-2 % of the population will affect people. The effort will use the fast -affordable setting technology to measure a fixed set of genes that meet the clear bars of high disease risk and efficient intervention.
In the context of population genomic screening, the gene mentioned in our CDC Tire 1 genomic applications are included in the database. These include genes of high risk cancer sensitivity, such as BRCA 1, BRCA 2 And Palb2 For hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, MLH1For, for, for,. Msh2 And Msh6 For lunch syndrome, and genes for cholesterol metabolism (ldlrFor, for, for,. apoB And 9 of PCS) Family for hypercalletium. For those with high genetic risk of these conditions, there are evidence -based guidelines for effective interference of Risk Risk Management to prevent disease.
What about the use of a polygonic risk score in population screening?
In the past decade, interest in the use of polygond risk score (PRS) in medicine and health is increasing. PRS calculates the additional influence of many common genetic variations at the risk of a particular disease. The growing popularity of PRS is due to low cost, better access, and the ability to generate risk estimates on the larger population.
PRS is usually calculated using gene typing array and sorting technologies. They are recommended as a potential alternative to population screening so that they can identify more dangerous people. However, from such a perspective, the rare pathogenic will lose the career of the variations that are measured by the use of sequence technologies.
In a recent article, Locals and compatriots argued that while the population supports the evidence of clinical utility, the population is rapidly supported to detect the rare genetic variations of the clinically viable conditions, but very few evidences do not support the score of pollejic risk scores. He added that the population screening measures are advised only using the polygunic score, while ignoring the discovery of rare genetic variations with high -risk genetic variations.
In fact, the field of PRS, while promising, is very much in progress. Verification of prediction PRS models, including description of the absolute risk limit for effective medical intervention, is still mostly lacking in the states of the disease and requires integration with other risk factors in the risk of disease risk models. For most diseases, PRS reporting has not yet been standardized and is not yet compatible with current clinical guidelines. In addition, PRS is subject to specific prejudices related to lineage.
Moving forward
A decade after the publication of the essay of Envoy Et El, many studies have been conducted to evaluate the authenticity and utility of DNA -based screening in several populations, age groups and settings. Our online academic basis can be found for the latest posts. A recent study identifies population -based genomic screening programs in the United States and describes the logistics of their implementation and the potential effects of health. Recently, Laura Milk and I jointly amend a collection of DNA -based population screening articles. These articles provide different types of population screening as well as various scientific, technical, implementation as well as the moral, legal and social aspects of genomic screening. Our blog posts deal with various aspects of this important and ready topic. We will continue to track progress in this important sector.
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