Question

If you had a chance to get your genome sequenced, what are some questions you might be able to have answered about yourself?

Short answer

Predicting Disease Risk at the Individual Level.

Step-by-step solution

Human Genome sequencing

Information about the entire human genome's six billion base pairs can be obtained by whole-genome sequencing.

Predicting disease risk 

Disease risk prediction includes screening currently healthy individuals using genome-wide analysis at the personal level. Healthcare providers may recommend lifestyle changes and medications before the onset of illness. This approach is most applicable when the problem is a defect in a single gene. Such defects account for only 5 percent of the disease in developed countries. The majority of prevalent diseases, including heart disease, are polygenic, or multifactorial, which is a phenotypic trait involving two or more genes as well as environmental factors like food.