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At the time, Canada was the only Group of Eight country without a law to protect genetic information from use by a third party. But asking people to pay their own way also resulted in a fairly select group of early volunteers. Most are affluent, well educated and, the paper notes, "idealistic about the promise of genomic medicine" — and, it so happens, white.
Apart from one participant from East Asia, one described as "white native" and three from the Middle East, all are Caucasian. The 25 women and 31 men ranged in age from 25 to 81 at enrolment, the median age being The initial selection process was also skewed deliberately, Dr. Scherer says, toward enrolling people "who are in a position to spread the word about the experience. Progress was slow going in the early years, but in , after a new generation of sequencing machines arrived at Dr.
Scherer's lab, and the McLaughlin Centre put up funding, the team decided to reread the genomes of the first participants at a level never before possible. Then, last March, Dr. Sick Kids scientist Miriam Reuter , lead author on the paper, says it was not clear how to approach all the DNA sequences they had generated, but they decided to home in on everything that looked as if it could affect health — the kind of patient information doctors may face in the near future.
Diane Kelsall , editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal and an Ottawa family doctor, describes the results as a vital resource for physicians already fielding questions from patients who have either taken commercial tests or are thinking about it. They are comprised of one tightly coiled molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid DNA with proteins that serve to package DNA and control its functions.
Carries unique genetic code that determines characteristics of each person.
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Each A base bonds with T base and each G base with C. Some proteins are building materials of cells — skin, heart, blood — while others control biological processes such as digesting food or carrying oxygen in blood. Variant refers to any change in sequence and is not necessarily harmful. Only when the change results in damaging the proteins a gene makes are they considered to be the possible cause of a genetic disease.
Variants are described on a spectrum as being "likely benign, benign, likely pathogenic. Variants are described on a spectrum as being "likely benign, benign, likely pathogenic or pathogenic. Variants are described on a spectrum as being "likely benign, benign, likely pathogenic or. T he PGP's deep dive into human DNA overturns the notion that the healthy inherit from their parents two matching sets of 23 tidy chromosomes that line up like soldiers. Indeed, it finds major structural differences not only between people, but between chromosomes in the same person. Most research on DNA has focused on the single letter "typos" in genetic code as signposts of disease.
The tally includes eight participants missing huge swaths of code from their genomes; a man with a long stretch of Chromosome 20 that's inverted; and, in Participant No. There's nothing to compare these copy-number variants against. Yet, without that information, there's a serious risk of missing a health issue: The study also examined changes in mitochondrial DNA, which people inherit only from their mothers.
In one participant, this separate ring of genetic code, which cells use to convert food to energy, contained an abnormality researchers had previously predicted could lead to neurological disorders in childhood. Dennis Bulman , a molecular geneticist at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, who was not involved in the research, said the depth of the study, and the fact that it was done on "normal" volunteers, was long overdue.
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Bulman , who's also a senior scientist with the Ontario Newborn Screening Program. While the study is small, and it can't be extrapolated to the general population, Dr.
Bulman noted that it took nearly as many researchers as there were participants to sift through the data. A team of researchers is hoping to create a system for First Nations people to gather and oversee their own genetic data in order to improve diagnoses and health outcomes related to genetic disease, Ivan Semeniuk reports. T he PGP identified variants in the study by comparing them with the third version of the very first human-genome map, which was compiled from the chromosomes of 13 people in Buffalo. Then, researchers checked to see whether those variants had been tagged as potentially harmful in various disease-gene databases.
But there's a wide reckoning in the field that much of this database information is lopsided: Rehm says, "is to have a true estimate of the likelihood of a healthy person developing disease if they carry the variant, a true estimate of penetrance. In the United States, proof that the knowledge gap can lead to serious misinterpretations has already surfaced. In South Carolina, a wrongful-death lawsuit is under way against a private testing company for allegedly misclassifying a mutation that may have cost a two-year-old boy his life.
The boy's mother, Amy Williams, claims that the company misinterpreted a mutation in her son, Christian, who suffered from epilepsy. As a result, Ms. Williams says he did not receive the effective treatment he could have, and was instead given medication that made him worse. In , doctors at the Mayo Clinic detailed the troubling case of two dozen family members who were wrongly informed by a testing company that they carried a heart-related mutation that could cause sudden death. The family had lost a year-old boy to an unexplained heart condition, and after receiving the test results, had a heart defibrillator surgically implanted in the chest of the boy's brother.
Only after further investigation at the Mayo did the family learn that the variant they carry is harmless.
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As are concerns around a consumer marketplace that waits for no one. These firms only parse the genome for certain markers, to tell their customers if they're lactose intolerant, say, or hail from Viking stock. I n the genomic era, people keen to dip into their DNA should be comfortable curling up with ambiguity. Logan Donaldson, a year-old York University biology professor, had no idea when he joined the PGP that he would go on to develop early onset glaucoma in The condition requires him to take daily medication and to have his eye pressure maintained at normal levels by laser therapy.
Some might chalk it up to bad luck, but, Prof. He discovered he carries a rare and serious mutation in one of the seven genes linked to glaucoma. Donaldson, who has far more genetic literacy than most, says his genome has left him with more questions than answers, but he feels that most people , "even if you only had high-school biology going into this," are not likely to overreact to what they find in their genetic closets: The American College of Medical Genetics advises that people should be informed of health risks uncovered in their genome only if such risks are medically actionable, which currently includes a fluctuating list of more than 50 conditions.
But, given the profiles of the early recruits, few had high expectations for themselves going into it. Gaskin's heart stopped after running a half-marathon in Brooklyn, N. He collapsed at the finish line. Yet nothing so far in Mr. Mowbray , Participant No. Mowbray was found to carry a total of "26 genetic defects," he says, none of which he has, or at least, not yet.
Beyond the gene linked to aortic stenosis , he also harbours a variant tied to premature ovarian failure, but, having no ovaries, he "automatically discounted it. Mowbray sees his string of false positives as evidence that the research is important and necessary, which is why, as a man close to retirement, without any children, he joined the project. But what they don't know is how many people have these defects that don't have the illness — and the question is why," he says. His results do have some utility. Mowbray learned about a medication he should avoid, and that he carries the variant for an irregular heartbeat disorder both his mother and grandmother had.
Even Michael Szego , the project's lead ethicist, discovered something both leading and misleading in his genome. He's a carrier for Tay-Sachs disease, which may be relevant to his children when they reach child-bearing age. But his genes also suggest that they're children he shouldn't have: His DNA carries a variant tied to hypogonadism , a condition that impairs masculine development and leads to infertility. There may be various reasons the participants appear to be healthy despite the pathogenic variants they carry, lead author Dr. It could be that symptoms of a condition don't strike until later in life or, as Dr.