Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Coriell Institute for Medical Research free medical genetic testing

Yesterday I went to the Coriell Institute, http://www.coriell.org/ in Camden, New Jersey, where I attended a lecture on their free medical genetic testing program. Part of the lecture was a review of their informed consent form, which I had previously received via an email attachment. At the end of the review I answered a few questions on the form and signed up for the testing. At that point I went to their lab and donated some saliva, and received a bar code to be used to retrieve results sometime around September of this year. Since this is a medical test, results will only be given for medically informative markers that have a treatment or lifestyle option for mitigation. If there is no cure or no effective lifestyle change to avoid the problem, then we will not be informed of that medical condition. The testing chip is the Affymetrix GeneChip, Genome wide Human SNP Array 6.0, http://www.affymetrix.com/products/application/genome_wide_snp_6_ad.affx As you can see at that page it does contain X and Y chromosome and mtDNA SNPs. I'll be lobbying for release of those results as well as the medical results. I do not believe we will receive the raw results of these tests.

If you are anywhere near Camden, I strongly urge you to consider this testing opportunity if you are interested in your genetic medical profile, http://www.coriell.org/index.php/content/view/92/257/

5 comments:

Jake said...

Wonderful that they are providing this service for free. Thanks for sharing.



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spy gear said...

Wgile receiving the raw results for these tests would be great. Scientists with an agenda can bend the data in their favor. Maybe not to fool the scientific community, which it can't, but it can easily fool people that aren't scientists.

Peter said...

I hope they can hold things like this as often as possible. Things like this can be very helpful for the science field in order to find the cure for a certain disease. This is wonderful.

Monica said...

Free medical genetic testing, I am really interested in it. By the way, could I still have free medical genetic testing now? How could I get it?

HCG Diet said...

Wow this sounds like quite an opportunity! Its amazing that they are providing this service for free!