Genome Screen

Premium checkup test analyzing genes that increase the risk of developing major diseases

Why should we get the Health Checkup genetic tests?

What is Genome Screen ?

  • Genome Screen tests the whole region on the genes that are highly correlated to the disease. Since this test reports likely pathogenic variant and pathogenic variant, you could understand that the risk of developing disease does exist if some mutations are detected through this test.
  • It is a premium test that analyzes representative genes related to the onset of diseases at once and provides customized medical guidelines according to the results.

Correlation between Gene-wide mutations and diseases

Pathogenicity classification

Why should we take Genome Screen?

  • Consisted of genes highly related to disease, and thus the risk of developing disease increases when the pathogenic variant is found
  • It provides the rules of health checkup and monitoring method (follow up method) in case the positive result comes out
  • It provides the guideline related to the family test that can be done for the examinee’s family

Who is Genome Screen recommended for?

Why should we take Genome Health?

  • Genome Health differs from typical health checkups as it analyzes genetic factors that can make individuals susceptible to cancer and other common diseases, allowing for the identification of the possibility of disease occurrence.
  • It provides a comprehensive assessment of disease risk levels, even with just once in a life, and offers guidelines for dietary and lifestyle habits based on those results.

How do Genome screen work?

Risk of Hereditary Diseases

The diseases that my children can inherit.

Genetic variants that influence diseases can be inherited by your children. By identifying genetic variations closely associated with disease onset, you can take preventive measures to protect your family from diseases.

Risk of Cancer

Cancer, being the second leading cause of death in many countries, is a major health problem worldwide. About 5 to 10% of the cancer is caused by inherited genetic abnormalities. And these cancers are called Hereditary Cancers.

Different types of hereditary cancer has different genes associated, and one gene may cause various types of hereditary cancers.

People born with these genetic abnormalities have higher risk of getting cancer. However, with early screening, you can begin preventive treatments and lower the chance of cancer

Risk of Stroke

Stroke is a neurological damage caused by the blockage of blood flow in an artery within the brain (ischemic stroke),  or the the blood vessel burst within the brain(hemorrhagic stroke). The key risk factors of stroke is hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and there are various genetic factors that play roles as well.

If you have a family history or have cardiovascular disease, the risk of stroke is more than doubled and among individuals who have previously experienced a stroke, the recurrence rate within 10 years is approximately 40%.

Fortunately, with early awareness and prevention, it is possible to prevent stroke in over 90% of cases.

Risk of Hyperlipidemia

Hyperlipidemia or Dyslipidemia is when there is extra lipids such as cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood. It can cause the risk of complications such as atherosclerosis, stroke or heart attack increase.

The major risk factors known for hyperlipidemia is obesity, diabetes, drinking, smoking, and genetic factors also play a role.

Unfortunately, even people in their 20s and 30s cannot be complacent about hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol). It has been reported that even in young individuals, having hyperlipidemia increases the risk of death and complications by 1.7 times compared to those with normal cholesterol levels.

By checking the risk of hyperlipidemia in advance, prevent complications of cardiovascular diseases at an early stage.

Risk of Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Did you know 90.3% of cardiac arrest patients die and only 8.7% survive? Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) is a sudden death of seemingly healthy people within 1 hour onset of symptoms. The number of annual worldwide deaths from sudden cardiac arrest is approximately 4.25 million. And many of these cases are from hereditary heart disease or arrhythmia.

People with Pathogenic Variant in the genes associated with heart disease may suffer sudden death from arrhythmia, rupture of aorta etc. without no other prior symptoms.

The golden time for cardiac arrest patients is only 4 minutes, which is a very short moment. If everyone in the family knows in advance and prepares, it can be prevented.

Risk of Hereditary Diseases

Genome screen reports likely pathogenic variant and pathogenic variant which is found to be clearly associated with a disease

Why Genome screen for you ?

Genome Screen tests the whole region on the genes that are highly correlated to the disease.
Since this test reports likely pathogenic variant and pathogenic variant, you could understand that the risk of developing disease does exist if some mutations are detected through this test.It is a premium test that analyzes representative genes related to the onset of diseases at once and provides customized medical guidelines according to the results.

How does Genome Screen works?

“Caution” in test reports means that more active attitudes should be taken to manage healthy lifestyle.
Efforts to improve lifestyle such as reducing alcohol consumption and smoking,
taking up healthy diet and regular exercise are recommended.

If the recipient of the test has family history of cancer and is concerned about hereditary factors, Cancer Genome Screen, which can analyze genes highly associated with cancer occurrence (High penetrance genes) maybe recommended.
The best way to prevent cancer is to take regular health checkup and maintain healthy lifestyle.

•Lung Cancer: CT,X-ray
•Liver Cancer: Ultrasound, Hepatitis B,C Vaccine.
•Breast Cancer: Breast Ultrasonography, Mammography
•Ovarian Cancer: Pap Test,HPV Vaccine
•Gastric/ColorectalCancer: Endoscopy

It means that the risk of developing each cancer is higher than the average individual by respective number of times.
For example if the incidence rate of aparticular cancer type is 0.05%, and there cipient of the test has 1.2 times risk of occurrence in that can certype,
the chance that there cipient will develop that cancer is 0.05%*1.2=0.06%.

The average risk of developing cancer in general population is approximately 1/4 to 1/3 (25%~33.3%).
This means that even if the test result shows “standard” for all cancer types, there is still the averager is risk of developing cancer.

Cancer is more often caused by environmental factors than hereditary factors.
Hence,even if there sults are “standard”, healthy diet, exercise and healthy life style habits are recommended.

Also, there are manygenes that contribute to cancer and are not covered in this test.
If there is family history of cancer and there cipient wish to take more comprehensive analysis of genetic factors, Cancer Genome Screen test is recommended.

Risk Screen and Genome Screen are the tests conducted ONLY ONCE in a lifetime
Genetic factors are not changed from birth, so it is not necessary to carry out a series of tests. Therefore, maintaining a good lifestyle and having regular health checkup are recommended.

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