Discovery of 600 hereditary disease through a drop of blood

Discovery of 600 hereditary disease through a drop of blood

 

 
Researchers in the United States developed an innovative way is a blood test before entering the periods of pregnancy and childbirth, and this test can detect diseases that may afflict newborns.


To do this test enough one drop of blood to detect the equivalent of the 600 disease of genetic diseases carried by parents in the genes to their children. The researchers believe that each individual owns CNA at least of these diseases exist in his genes, but fortunately, the individual does not feel this does not feel, each individual has two copies of each gene, and if the second copy in good condition, they are overcoming version malfunctioning, in this case Do not show hidden in individual diseases.

It is possible to have a mother and father at the same time defective gene which makes two copies Matobtin move of the young child and then show this disease gene with him, although you do not see these diseases in the mother or the father.