DNA检测用于预防健康:结果证明继续投资是合理的吗?

IF 0.3 4区医学 Q4 ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL

IEEE Pulse Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1109/MPULS.2023.3324240

Jim Banks

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摘要

在英国，基因学界就一项并不新鲜的技术及其在公共健康中的作用展开了激烈的辩论。用于发现祖先的廉价基因测试已经成为人们熟悉的消费产品，我们的基因可以告诉我们很多关于祖先的信息，因此，它们可以告诉我们我们对严重疾病的易感性，这是一个很有吸引力的想法。多基因风险评分(PRS)——通过对一个人dna的多个部分进行测序而产生——被一些人认为是帮助人们避免从1型糖尿病到心血管疾病和癌症等各种疾病的关键。这可能预示着预防医学的新时代，英国正在大力投资，但最终，这是否是一项好的投资仍有待确定。

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DNA Testing for Preventative Health: Do Outcomes Justify Continued Investment?

In The U.K., a heated debate is raging in the genetics community about a not-so-new technology and its role in public health. Cheap genetic tests to discover our ancestry have become familiar consumer products, and our genes can tell us a lot about our ancestry, so it is an appealing idea that they can tell us about our susceptibility to serious diseases. Polygenic risk scores (PRS)-generated by sequencing multiple parts of a person's DNA-are said by some to hold the key to helping people avoid everything from type 1 diabetes to cardiovascular disease and cancer. This could herald a new era of preventive medicine, and the U.K. is investing heavily, but ultimately, whether or not this a good investment is still being determined.

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IEEE Pulse ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL-

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1.10

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6-12 weeks

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