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For the first time, doctors have used the genetic profile of an apparently healthy middle-aged man to predict his risk of developing dozens of diseases in later life.
Dr Stephen Quake, a 40-year-old scientist at Stanford University in California, was found to be carrying a rare genetic mutation that can cause a sudden and fatal heart attack, and other genes that boosted his risk of becoming diabetic and obese to more than 50%.
Some genes revealed how Quake would respond to different medications, including a number of heart disease drugs to which he is at risk of reacting badly.
The study, published in the Lancet, is the first to use the full genome of a healthy person to glean information on their future wellbeing and the likelihood of responding well to drugs treatments.
Further gene variants suggest Quake has a 23% risk of prostate cancer, but only a 1.4% chance of developing Alzheimer's disease.
Quake, who sequenced and published his own genome last year, joined forces with colleagues at Stanford to investigate how useful the information was in predicting his...
Dr Stephen Quake, a 40-year-old scientist at Stanford University in California, was found to be carrying a rare genetic mutation that can cause a sudden and fatal heart attack, and other genes that boosted his risk of becoming diabetic and obese to more than 50%.
Some genes revealed how Quake would respond to different medications, including a number of heart disease drugs to which he is at risk of reacting badly.
The study, published in the Lancet, is the first to use the full genome of a healthy person to glean information on their future wellbeing and the likelihood of responding well to drugs treatments.
Further gene variants suggest Quake has a 23% risk of prostate cancer, but only a 1.4% chance of developing Alzheimer's disease.
Quake, who sequenced and published his own genome last year, joined forces with colleagues at Stanford to investigate how useful the information was in predicting his...