Schizophrenia

...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b and hypertension and asthma - all of these conditions that we know tend to run in families but are not inherited in simple ways.

In the next couple of years, I think many of these mysteries will be solved.

And that is 10 years before I think most people thought that could be possible.

And it launches the next phase then of using that information to develop better means of prevention and better means of treatment.

We will discover what are the variations in individual people's genomes that place them at risk for illness.

We all have these.

There are no perfect genetic specimens - even in Alaska.

You are all walking around like I am, with dozens of glitches in your instruction book.

...

We are on the brink of discovering what those glitches are.

That will, in some instances I think, be quite welcomed by people who would like to know what's lurking there in the future and what they can do about it.

Q.

You've talked about using genetics to make risk predictions.

Can you explain what that means?

A.

If I'm right ...

the time is coming not far off where you and I will be given the chance to find out what's on our list of future risks based on this kind of DNA testing.

We have ideas about prevention.

There are various recommendations about what you should be doing as far as good preventive health care depending on age, gender and so on.

But most people ignore them.

Part of the problem is that the current recommendations are one size fits all.

And we are individualist...

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