Key Area 8: Personal Genomics

Question 1

How can analysis genomes be used in medicine and health?

Answer 1

Finding particular genes that are characteristic of causing disease or health problems that can then be planned for

Question 2

What is personalised medicine?

Answer 2

Made for individual who react badly to the medicine they would need to treat the harmful gene found

Question 3

What are the difficulties of personalised medicine?

Answer 3

• patients may not want to know they are predicted to be ill

- the genes don’t always cause the problem that has been predicted from it