Check Yourself for Genetic Abnormalities From Wired How-To Wiki
Nearly every day, somebody in the research community claims to have found a genetic marker associated with some sort of health condition. If you are curious and want to check yourself for those inherited traits, there are several options at your disposal. Some are easy, others are quite hard, but none of them are cheap. * 1 Option 1: Visit a Genetic Counselor * 2 Option 2: Scan Your Whole Genome * 3 Option 3: Perform Lab Tests at Home o 3.1 What You'll Need o 3.2 Why do it the hard way? o 3.3 Step 1: Swab some cells from your cheek o 3.4 Step 2: Extract DNA from those cells o 3.5 Step 3: Design and Order PCR primers and controls o 3.6 Step 4: Copy the DNA with the PCR reaction o 3.7 Step 5: Sequence the amplified genetic material more... http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Check_Yourself_for_Genetic_Abnormalities _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
