Genetic testing looks for changes, sometimes called mutations or variants, in your DNA. Genetic testing is useful in many areas of medicine and can change the medical care you or your family member receives. For example, genetic testing can provide a diagnosis for a genetic condition such as Fragile X or information about your risk to develop cancer. There are many different kinds of genetic tests. Genetic tests are done using a blood or spit sample and results are usually ready in a few weeks. Because we share DNA with our family members, if you are found to have a genetic change, your family members may have the same change. Genetic counseling before and after genetic testing can help make sure that you are the right person in your family to get a genetic test, you’re getting the right genetic test, and that you understand your results.
Personalized medicine is an emerging practice of medicine that uses an individual's genetic profile to guide decisions made in regard to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. Knowledge of a patient's genetic profile can help doctors select the proper medication or therapy and administer it using the proper dose or regimen. Personalized medicine is being advanced through data from the Human Genome Project.
Personalized medicine is a fantastic opportunity to take a "one size fits all" approach to diagnostics and drug therapy and prevention and turn it into an individualized approach. We all are similar, of course, but we are also different. And the idea that medicine would be applied in a fashion that ignores those differences can't be any more correct than going to the shoe store and buying any old pair of shoes without checking the size. Genomics is playing a big role in the emergence of personalized medicine, 'cause it gives us a window in a very specific molecular way into those differences between us and allows the opportunity for making individual predictions about disease risk that can help somebody choose a prevention plan that is right for them. It also allows the possibility in some instances of picking the right drug at the right dose for the right person instead of the "one size fits all" approach to drug therapy. And ultimately it will be hard to see how any kind of medicine will not be affected by this as we learn more and more about the individual, and as many of us find our complete genomes being sequenced and placed into our medical records to empower that kind of personalized approach. Lots of work to do here, but maybe the biggest revolution in medicine in a very long time.
Cardiovascular
Cardiovascular Testing detects mutations associated with inherited cardiovascular diseases and sudden cardiac death to provide an exhaustive study of genes.
Diabetes
Genetic testing (NGS) can establish an accurate diagnosis and identify a genetic etiology, which has important implications for individualized management of symptoms and prognostic information for family members.
Pulmonologys
We offer a Comprehensive Pulmonology Panel. It is a 68 gene panel that includes assessment of non-coding variants. The genes on the panel have been carefully selected based on scientific literature, mutation databases and our experience.
Pharmacogenomics
The PGx test is your one test for life. The test will cover your metabolic response to medications at all stages in life, and can be referred back to at any time regardless of your age or health status.
Thyroid
There are several reasons for undermining the underlying familial thyroid disease and the associated signals. Number one of course is lower penetrance (awareness per se) of clinical genome wide association studies on genetically predisposed diseases and genes. Secondly, blood test with Hyper/hypothyroidism is under looked prescribing medications for life without even trying to verify whether the disease signature is due to inherited disease causing/pathogenic variants involved in the dysfunction of thyroid gland and or an early warning/signal for a disease yet to be manifested in the future. The only way to find out is by sequencing the variants that the patient has inherited.
Eye Disorder
Genetic testing may provide the underlying genetic causes of eye disorders and differentiate the individual’s disorder from other disorders which present with inherited eye disorders. Identification of one or more causative variants can provide the physician and family with important information regarding prognosis, treatment, and recurrence risk in future offspring. It also provides other family members the option for variant-specific carrier testing and genetic counseling.
Neurological Disease
Almost 99% of the general public doesn’t even know they have the family link to a neurological disease that might be manifested in the future. This predisposition to neurological disease should be explored at an early stage. The encrypted malfunctional genes on the subject’s genome serves as a benchmark for future treatment plan, further diagnosis and delay the onset of neurological conditions. Many risk factor genes are clinically proven to induce neurological conditions, the only way to rule out is to sequence the genes and rule out the genetic risk for the most complex disease on the planet
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