Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives--and Our Lives Change Our Genes by Moalem MD PhD Sharon

Author:Moalem MD PhD, Sharon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2014-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

You don’t have to be a Mormon to give your siblings, children, and grandchildren a better shot at having the important information they’ll need to make better sense of their genomes, and thus their personal health. One of the best gifts you can provide them with is a thorough genealogical history, starting with what you know about the health of your own parents and moving on up and across the family tree as far as you can.

Make it as detailed as possible: You never know how some seemingly inconsequential detail of one generation, like sensitivity to a specific drug, can lead to a useful bounty of familial medical information. So knowing more about your own inheritance, either through a detailed family history or from direct genetic testing, can serve as an important reminder about your own unique individuality.

It’s a reminder that tells you that it’s time to step away and leave the crowd behind by starting to ask questions like these: What’s the best drug and dosage for my genotype? How can I avoid the Prevention Paradox? What nutritional and lifestyle strategies should I be trying to employ to best serve my genetic needs? And what genetic life lessons can I learn from a frozen 5,000-year-old Italian mummy?

You may not find all the answers to these key questions right away, but by asking them you’ll come closer to getting a picture of some of the most important genetic qualities that make you incomparably original.

* A few of the prescribed medications that are impacted by your genes include chloroquine, codeine, dapsone, diazepam, esomeprazole, mercaptopurine, metoprolol, omeprazole, paroxetine, phenytoin, propranolol, risperidone, tamoxifen, and warfarin.

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