Role of Genetic Analysis and Social Policy (Insurance)

Role of Genetic Analysis and Social Policy (Insurance)

Introduction

The genetic code is said to be a set of rules which helps in encoding information into genetic material. Then it gets translated into proteins in living cells. However, the code of genetics defines the association between sequences of three nucleotides, called codons, and amino acids. Moreover, a codon matches to a specific amino acid and RNA transport is based on a message to the DNA corresponding molecule (Billings, 1993).

However, every living thing have a fixed number of chromosomes which are constant in the nucleus of the cells and within them, there is a fixed and constant number of genes. Moreover, humans have 46 chromosomes that contain thousands of genes. However, from these 23 gets received from the mother's egg and the other 23 the father's sperm. The chromosomes are called X or Y depending on how they present and by merging the egg and sperm, the chromosomes unite in pairs; numbering 1 to 22. However, the pair is what defines sex and is formed with the XX chromosome pair in the case of women and XY in case of a man (Billings, 1993).

However, sometimes, during germ cell division, or which give rise to ova and spermatozoa, one or more chromosomes can get damaged or alter their normal number. When chromosomes are more or less normal, problems are created and majority of babies with genetic disorders are aborted spontaneously during the first weeks of pregnancy. There are some who do survive, but these deficiencies have diseases, problems mental or physical deformities (Frieden, 1991).

Discussion

Genetic testing and analysis is done by testing a small sample of blood or tissues from the body. They lets know if the person, his/her partner or the baby carries genes for some sort of hereditary disorder. However, genetic analysis is sufficiently well developed to doctors and can identify defective genes or gene deficiencies. Moreover, genetic analysis to make a judgment depends on the specific disease or disorder that the doctor suspected. There is also a notion that several diverse kinds of body tissues and fluids can get used in genetic analysis (Wang, & Watts, 2007).

Parents can look into several factors and realize that is the analysis of genetic codes important or not. The genetic diseases are an important group of diseases, not only for its relatively high incidence, about 1 percent of babies born with some type of genetic abnormality, but by the type of problems that occur. From a clinical standpoint these diseases are characterized by compromising the quality of life of the affections, causing severe mental or physical disability. It is also common for these diseases have a progressive character and condition early mortality. In certain genetic diseases that cause progressive and inexorable deterioration, a diagnosis can also assume virtually an early death sentence (Taylor, et. Al, 2010).

A high percentage of so-called rare diseases are genetic in origin, hence the great importance for this group of diseases genetics as a science and ...