Comments on: No I do not need a genetic scan to know my kids http://biopinionated.com/2008/10/31/no-i-dont-need-a-genetic-scan-to-know-my-kids/ Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:42:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: DTC-testing concluded for now « The Sciphu Weblog http://biopinionated.com/2008/10/31/no-i-dont-need-a-genetic-scan-to-know-my-kids/#comment-228 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:15:25 +0000 http://sciphu.wordpress.com/?p=724#comment-228 [...] No I do not need a genetic scan to know my kids [...]

]]> By: Sergio Stagnaro http://biopinionated.com/2008/10/31/no-i-dont-need-a-genetic-scan-to-know-my-kids/#comment-223 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:53:34 +0000 http://sciphu.wordpress.com/?p=724#comment-223 My dear blog friends,
first of all, you have to know what I’ve wrote also this morning to Wiley as well as large numbers of physicians, including oncologists of IJC and NCI, Nobel Prize 2008 for Mecidine, as well as to my dearest friend Nils, as criticism to HPV vaccination aiming to prevent cervical cancer in ALL young women (!!!), that Biophysical Semeiotic Constitutions really exist and are “maternally” transmitted. As a conseguence, if a father is involved by whatever disorder, there is no danger for his children, when mother is not involved by the same disease!
Secondly, it is unavoidable for the health of mankind, that physicians all around the world would konow, beside the constitutions of their patients, the related Inherited Real Risks: for instance, the women invoved by brest cancer at 50 year age, have been an Inherited Real Risk (ore seldom more) in mamma quadrant, since birth, BUT nobody has recognized it overlooking my theories! About 30 of these women are successfully treated by me, since 5 years, with Mediterranean Diet (ethimologically speaking: no cigarette smoke; physical excercise; BMI normal, a.s.o.), Coniugated-Melatonin and personalized NIR-LED applications (techically speaking: LLLT) on their mamma, where is localised Inherited Real Risk. The title of a paper, which will be published in about a week in SciPhu blog, sounds: “Meadle Age of Medicine, Overlooking Quantum-Biophysical-Semeiotic Constitutions and Related Inherited Real Risk”. And I invite you all to read and comment it!

]]> By: sciphu http://biopinionated.com/2008/10/31/no-i-dont-need-a-genetic-scan-to-know-my-kids/#comment-219 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:21:48 +0000 http://sciphu.wordpress.com/?p=724#comment-219 Daniel. I have read your posts on this issue and I agree with most of what you say. I also agree with your comment above. My point is this: If your children have complaints you should by all means get genetic tests to aid any diagnosis. Lactose intolerance is a good example although keep in mind that the C/T-13910 SNP is not of any diagnostic value until the child is, say, more than 8-10 years old. However, as you point out in your own posts, the 23andme panel is (currently) not going to give you any valuable information when it comes to making life-style-like decisions for your child. It may in the future, but even the truly predictive tests of the future will carry with them significant ethical issues, – especially for non-consenting children.

]]> By: Steven Murphy MD http://biopinionated.com/2008/10/31/no-i-dont-need-a-genetic-scan-to-know-my-kids/#comment-218 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:15:58 +0000 http://sciphu.wordpress.com/?p=724#comment-218 I meant why can’t you guys get that the best science available is not the most recent SNP study. Nor the most recent indel study…..it is the tried and tested family history for starters…..then valid sequence studies (for at least 5 years and with solid replications)……..to be augmented with STANDARD medical tests……

-Steve
http://www.thegenesherpa.blogspot.com

]]> By: Steven Murphy MD http://biopinionated.com/2008/10/31/no-i-dont-need-a-genetic-scan-to-know-my-kids/#comment-217 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:14:24 +0000 http://sciphu.wordpress.com/?p=724#comment-217 But what good is this information from the SNP chips????
That’s all I ask. Someone step up and admit that the info gleaned from the SNP data is absolutely worthless, we shouldn’t be selling it as a guide for anything but how gullible and curious we are to look at base pairs that may have no meaning now OR in the future…..Nils is right…….a family history is a much better tool…..too bad most scientists rely on sequence rather than good clinical sense…
Why push the science that doesn’t exist. We have family history data and research that goes back decades, not just to 2006…..Man, why can you guys get that?

-Steve
http://www.thegenesherpa.blogspot.com

]]> By: Daniel MacArthur http://biopinionated.com/2008/10/31/no-i-dont-need-a-genetic-scan-to-know-my-kids/#comment-216 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:04:53 +0000 http://sciphu.wordpress.com/?p=724#comment-216 Hey Nils,

Sure, genetic testing isn’t a substitute for good parenting – but it might still help to guide decisions. As a trivial example, my parents would have been saved quite a bit of trial-and-error diet modification if they’d known from early on that I am genetically lactose intolerant.

I don’t think anyone is advocating that parents stop listening to their kids or allowing them to explore their own life choices; but if there is additional information available that might help parents come to a decision, why ignore it?

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