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  MY BODY,  MY MEDICINE Welcome to my blog, where we are going to explore the fascinating fields of genetic testing and personalized treatment! As teenagers and young adults, we are fortunate to be able to customize treatments based on each person's specific genetic profile thanks to recent medical developments. What then does "personalized medicine" consist of? Simply explained, it is a method of providing healthcare that considers a person's genetic information as well as other personal data in order to make more accurate and efficient medical decisions. This entails that therapies and drugs can be tailored in accordance with a person's particular genetic traits, leading to better outcomes and fewer adverse effects. By revealing important details about a person's DNA, genetic testing is essential for individualized medicine. Doctors might find genetic variants that can make a person more susceptible to certain diseases or ailments through genetic testing. Us...
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Where is my information going?

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By S.Fabian Figure 1. Direct to consumer testing kit https://live.staticflickr.com/7906/47400098641_0eae7ebdb0_b.jpg  Figure 2: My direct testing results How many times have you wondered about your ancestry or were curious about potential diseases your genetic history might encompass? I know for a fact that I was curious to see  my ancestry, so I embarked on a quest to try direct-to-consumer testing for my ancestry. My results were pretty much what I had predicted. I was about 87.7% Indigenous American and 9.3% European. These were nice results to receive as I was also able to connect with a long-lost cousin in the family line. However, in light of feeding my curiosity I didn’t think much of the policies that were put into place to protect my information. So what are they? Do we even know what they are? As we do so much to make sure our SSN or credit card information is protected, shouldn’t we do the same for our genetic information? Like that is literally us while the other t...
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