DEFINITION Genetic Testing is a type of medical test that identifies changes in chromosomes genes, or proteins. Genetic testing is when they take a test so that they can see their genes and to find out if they have any diseases. The result of a genetic testing can confirm or rule out a suspected genetic condition or help determine a person's chance of developing or passing genetic disorder.
PROCESS: It would depend on how you want to do it. It can happen online which most of the people do it online and they send it through mail and get the results back through mail. The best way i think it would be through a doctor because you have them right there and if you get something bad they will tell you what is in your genes.
Examples
|
|
FAILURE Genetic testing may have it's advantages but also has it's disadvantages like Genetic testing may not always give you the correct information it may not be telling the truth. This happened to a kid that they made a mistake and told him he had something when he didn't. The mistake was that they analyzed the results wrong because they thought he had a disease and he didn't. The way the doctor can read the DNA or the gene that they have wrong.
MEDICAL OR HEALTH CARE This technology can be used to improve medicine or health care because yo get to see the genes and it will predict what your going to have so they can treat them and most of them are treatable
HUMAN HEALTH USE It can also improve in human health because it shows how people will react with the news and seeing how they will take it, It also prepares the doctors in a way because it shows and test the doctor to help the people and explaining what it meant if you turn out with something bad.
ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS The ethical implications of genetic testing is so that you know or if you're carious of what you can die from or what you can prepare for. Some of the test comes out with a bad result and you have to know how to take it and prepare for the future. It can also be used if you wont to know if you related to someone that you don't know of. It can be used in many types of way and can improve future by knowing what's coming.
- http://ghr.him.nih.gov
- cnn.com
- huffingtonpost.com