Predictive, Preventive & Personalized Medicine and Molecular Diagnostics

Treatment of Genetic Disorders

Genetic disorders may or may not be heritable from the parents genes. In non-heritable genetic disorders, defects may be caused by new mutations  and changes to the DNA. In such cases, the defect will only be heritable if it occurs in the germ line .Such as some forms of cancer, may be caused by an inherited genetic condition in some people by new mutations in other people, and mainly by environmental causes in other people. Whether, when and to what extent a person with the genetic defect abnormality will actually suffer from the disease is almost always affected by the environmental factors and events in the persons development.