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我觉得这篇文章就是讨论为什么结果大相径庭的。而且测序误差---例如本来是A的地方测成了G,所产生的不同并不是导致结果不同的主要原因。
不同公司花费不同,测量的疾病也不尽相同
23andMe’s saliva test kit, which for $99 promised a report on more than 240 health conditions and traits
Genetic Testing Laboratories and Pathway Genomics. G.T.L. charged $285 for a report on 25 disease risks
Pathway charged $399 for a report on 24 disease risks. 没有统一的工业标准。不同公司所用方法不同
a lack of industry standards for weighing risk factors and defining terminology.
测量的SNP数量有限
使用不同的模型解释相同的疾病成因
Scientists have identified about 10 million SNPs within our three billion nucleotides. But an entire genome sequencing — looking at all three billion nucleotides — would cost around $3,000; the tests I took examined fewer than a million SNPs.
my tests sometimes relied on different SNPs to assess the same condition 缺少可做比较的综合数据集
“Your results are not the least bit surprising,” he told me. “Anything short of sequencing is going to be short on accuracy — and even then, there’s almost no comprehensive data sets to compare to.” 基因在疾病中扮演的作用是有限的,环境起了很重要的作用。
the causes of most common diseases remain unknown. Genes account for just 5 to 20 percent of the whole picture. 已发现能归因于某些基因的疾病很少
There are only 23 diseases that start in adulthood, can be treated, and for which highly predictive tests exist. All are rare, with hereditary breast cancer the most common. 最后的建议
The tests “may be interesting as a kind of entertainment,” Dr. Caplan said, “but do not take them seriously yet in driving your health care or your lifestyle.”
He added: “If you want to spend money wisely to protect your health and you have a few hundred dollars, buy a scale, stand on it, and act accordingly.”
结论就是:老老实实锻炼,别乱熬夜无规律进食。别信这些结果。
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