The Benefits of Risk Assessment

Knowing how you process medicines, and your level of inherited risk for disease, allows you to avoid serious adverse drug reactions and may allow you to avoid serious disease

DNA-based tests are useful. Medicines are usually given at a standard dose. But, the right dose for you may be very different, depending on your ability to activate the medicine and to eliminate it. The enzymes responsible for drug processing differ greatly from person to person. Knowing how your liver processes common medications will help you avoid serious adverse events and help you get the right drug at the right dose.

Networks of genes determine your level of inherited risk for common serious diseases. Knowing your level of risk, and specific DNA changes, may help you avoid disease, plan for the consequences of disease, and allow early diagnosis when treatment is most effective. You and your physician can create a personalized plan.