COMMENT:

This whole nonsensical thing feeds into the general public perception
that your DNA somehow is your medical destiny, something we already
know from identical twin studies is baloney. Genetics explain about a
third of the variability in human life expectancy in developed Western
countries like Denmark; no more.

I had this truth hammered into me back in the days when I used to run
aging studies on genetically identical inbred mice, all housed in the
same room, and all fed the same amount of the same diet. And found
that they died of range of different things and at different ages,
with the 80% survival and the 20% survival points coming at perhaps 26
and 40 months, with a mean of 33 months. Some got lymphoma, some
hepatoma, some apparently died of infections. Some got spinal sentosis
before the end, and some didn't.  All that's a pretty good lession
that there's a lot of random chance (ie stochastic factors) in
mortality and "aging".

The average set of non-identical human twins of the same sex dies
within a mean of about 7 years of each other. For identical twins, the
figure's about 5 years. I think if you asked the general public to
guess, they'd probably say about 5 weeks, and guess that twins usually
die in old age of the same thing. Which they don't.

For stroke, if your identical twin died of stroke, your chance of
dying of stroke goes up by only a factor of 2. That means if you
identical twin dies of stroke, your chance of dying of a stroke goes
from maybe 5% to maybe 10% or so. Not impressive. You'll never make
money on that kind of predictiveness.

For cancer, it's hard to show that if one non-identical twin dies of
cancer, that this increases the chances of the other to die of cancer
at all. For identical twins, the chance of one twin dying of cancer
goes up by a mere 40% or so, if the other twin does. But the
correlations in the KIND of cancer (cancer site) are only modest, with
typical risk ratios going up by a couple of times. You can influence
cancer that much by diet and exercise, and far more by smoking.

For heart disease, the correlations between twins are by far the most
impressive for early disease. If your identical twin died early from
heart disease, your chances go up by a factor of 8 or more.  That's
not destiny, but it's still pretty large.  However, most people don't
die of heart disease when young (in their fifies) but much later, and
by that time, if your twin died of heart disease, your own chances are
scarcesly more than they would have been without the twin. So your
particular DNA isn't doing much by the time you hit your 70's. All in
all genetics explains maybe 50 to 55% of all heart disease. The rest
is due to chance and behavior (smoking, saturated fat eating, etc).

Bottom line: your DNA isn't your longevity destiny. It's only a third
of it. The rest, you have some control over.

Steve

"Dr. Jai Maharaj" <usenet@mantra.com> wrote in message news:

< snip 500 lines of bullshit >

Let us know when they win a Nobel.

moo

Indian doctor duo make DNA horoscopes at birth

ANI
Trivandrum
Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 8:58:14 PM IST

A doctor duo from Trivandrum have
developed a technique to map the DNA
sequencing of human beings so as to
predict their future tendencies and
also help fight diseases.

Ajit Kumar and Arun Kumar, both
genetic experts from the city's main
state-run hospitals, have developed
the "Nano Geneseq Chip", which
analyses the entire future genetic
proposition of a human at birth
itself. In layman terms the computer
can, to almost 100 percent accuracy,
predict how a child will grow-right
from its height, colour and other
physical attributes to his eating
habits and even romantic tendencies.
Named 'NANOGENESEQ', the chip
analyses the DNA samples of newborns,
taken either from blood, spinal cord
or saliva, effectively making a
'genetic horoscope' of the baby.

"This chip is a great miracle and it
will be a miracle for medical
science, in fact in every areas like
HIV, genetic areas and cancer. Our
main aim is to bring out a genital
gene card. By birth of a baby, one
can analyse the DNA and sort out
diseases that may occur during
lifespan," Ajit Kumar, the man behind
the miracle discovery, said. Needless
to say, the medical world is excited
about the young doctors' findings
which will revolutionise the very
concept of health care in the world.

Doctors say with the genetic layout
at their disposal, they would be able
to predict and treat a range of
disorders, most importanty HIV/AIDS
and cancer.

"It will be highly useful in
diagnosing critical DNA segments
which can be amplified so that it is
useful to develop noval drugs used to
treat diseases like HIV, cancer and
other genetic disorders,"
Lohithananda Swami, Director of
Ramakrishna hospital, said.

Kumar and Swami's invention has
received praise from all over the
world including the U.S.

President George W.Bush, had sent
them a letter of felicitation.

The young doctors have also secured
the patent rights for their discovery
and the product will be ready for
commercialization in another two to
three months after slight fine-
tuning.

The duo are in advanced negotiations
with U.S-based nano-tech majors to
globally commercialize the product
through a multi-million dollar
invested collaborative research and
development centre and to start a
nano tech training institute,
possibly the first of its kind in
South East Asia. Nanogeneseq chip is
also used in computer chip
industries, holographic movie camera,
industries, cell phones etc. It is
about 200 times more powerful than
the current analyzer. It has longer
life span and power consumption is
reduced to a minimum.(ANI)

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