What is the value of including personal information about yourself and your lifestyle when
researchers are looking at your DNA? How does study different than many other similar sets of
data gathered from GWAS and SNP Haplotypes?What do you think about the scope and purpose
of this type of genetics data study.
Solution
Answer to including personal information and lifestyle lies in phenotype differences. Phenotype
is influenced by genotype and environment. Hence although scientists and researchers look for
DNA or genetic material of an individual but also take a look on the environmental conditions or
life style which influences the phenotype of an organism.
GWAS (Genome wide association study) is study of genetic variants which are associated with a
trait like any major disease. By using SNPs (Short nuclear polymorphisms) short interspersed
regions can be identified to locate the traits of interest. The environmental factors like sunlight
can differ the response of an individual to it. One individual can be sensitiove to it but the other
could be diseased on exposure to sunlight, thus having a knowledge about individual\'s lifestyle
helps in tracking previous information.
The scope of GWAS has wider implications. Disease dignosis using genetics data helps in
developing drugs relating to it. It can be used to identify genes from different organisms.
Ancestral hierarchy can be established..
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1. What is the value of including personal information about yourself and your lifestyle when
researchers are looking at your DNA? How does study different than many other similar sets of
data gathered from GWAS and SNP Haplotypes?What do you think about the scope and purpose
of this type of genetics data study.
Solution
Answer to including personal information and lifestyle lies in phenotype differences. Phenotype
is influenced by genotype and environment. Hence although scientists and researchers look for
DNA or genetic material of an individual but also take a look on the environmental conditions or
life style which influences the phenotype of an organism.
GWAS (Genome wide association study) is study of genetic variants which are associated with a
trait like any major disease. By using SNPs (Short nuclear polymorphisms) short interspersed
regions can be identified to locate the traits of interest. The environmental factors like sunlight
can differ the response of an individual to it. One individual can be sensitiove to it but the other
could be diseased on exposure to sunlight, thus having a knowledge about individual's lifestyle
helps in tracking previous information.
The scope of GWAS has wider implications. Disease dignosis using genetics data helps in
developing drugs relating to it. It can be used to identify genes from different organisms.
Ancestral hierarchy can be established.
