How to do genetic testing?

1. Who needs genetic testing? Genetic testing does not require the age and physical condition of the subjects. The selection of disease items can follow the following principles: a, people with family history of diseases should focus on family history of diseases, understand the risks of related diseases, and make targeted prevention as soon as possible. But not limited to family history diseases. We often suffer from diseases because we ignore them. B, irregular living habits, or people with bad living habits such as smoking and drinking, need to focus on tumors, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases; C, genetic testing of newborns will help parents to cultivate targeted living habits from childhood, avoid or delay the occurrence of diseases, and benefit from one test for life; D, people who have had diseases receive genetic testing, which can assist the treatment of diseases and clarify the prevention of complications; E parents, brothers and sisters, children are similar to our genotypes, but they are different. So the results of personal genetic testing are only for personal health management. 2. The safety of genetic testing? The test sample needed for genetic testing is blood. The patient can complete the sampling by taking 6-8 ml venous blood by the nurse with disposable blood collection equipment in a regular medical institution. The whole process will not cause any harm to our bodies. In terms of personal privacy, formal institutions will set up a complete security system to ensure the information security of subjects. For example, the Aipu personal genetic testing service provided by Beijing National Engineering Research Center of Biochip provides identity encryption for the examinee from the beginning of registration, including multiple guarantees such as customer identification code, blood collection equipment coding, report encryption, online reading password letter, reading modification permission setting, electronic data information probability, electronic signature, database maintenance encryption and so on. 3. Process of genetic testing ① Customer registration: the examinee fills in the informed consent form and information registration form, and submits it to the genetic testing institution to establish a health file. ② Sample collection: Generally, it is a blood sample, with no special requirements and no need for fasting. Sample collection is completed by professional medical institutions. ③ After receiving the sample, the genetic testing institution completes the sample testing, result analysis and report writing. And submit the test report to the candidates. ④ Interpretation of the report: After the customer receives the report, the testing organization will provide interpretation of the report, and provide personalized guidance and suggestions for healthy living in many aspects such as reasonable diet, suitable exercise mode, good mental state, social environment, directional regular physical examination, safe medication and targeted medical care according to the genetic test results. 4. What should we do after genetic testing? ① Psychological decompression: Genetic testing can indicate the risk of a certain disease, but it cannot determine his future health. High risk means that patients are more likely to get sick than ordinary people, but when they get sick and the development of the disease also depends on the environment and living habits. Therefore, once high-risk diseases are detected, don't panic. Professional institutions will give targeted advice and effective guidance to avoid or delay the occurrence of diseases. ② Strengthening the awareness of health management: Genetic testing shows that the risk of disease is low, which means that the risk of disease is low, but it does not completely rule out the possibility of illness. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the awareness of health management to avoid the occurrence of diseases. ③ Follow professional health guidance. The occurrence of major diseases such as tumor, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is the result of the joint action of disease susceptibility genes, long-term living habits and external factors, and it is necessary to adhere to the guidance of professional institutions, rather than just dabbling.