Genetic is the biology field that studies genes and the transmission of hereditary characteres. Genes are units of information that use the bodies to transfer a character to the offspring.
Genetic provide information for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of a wide range of diseases, most of them hardly known. Its potential activity is extended to nearly all health assistance fields and all life cycle stages.
Genetic is been used since years ago in areas as pediatrics and obstetrics. However, its significance in adult assistance is more and more wider, having a big impact in neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, kidney disorders, metabolic disorders, dermatological disorders, etc.
In clinical genetic consultation performance exists a path that allows - from the professionalism and ethic - the interpretation of the most advanced molecular diagnosis techniques with the aim of providing a first level medical assistance. Genetic produce an added value to the assistance process, with clear improvement for patient's health and well-being.
Some data
Genetic basis diseases have a first order incidence in health area:
- 3% of newborn have some anomaly or genetic origin disease.
- 8% of the population will develop a genetic origine disease before 25 years old.
- In more than 30% of chronic pathology in adulthood the genetic factor play a predominant role.
- In USA it is observed that 71% of hospitalization cases in childhood have an underlying genetic cause.
- At the EU genetic diseases are the third infant mortality cause.