In the Genomic Era, the life expectancy can be 150 years
Amritsar, Feb 18 (UNI) Distinguished Genetic Scientists of international repute exhaustively deliberated the issues relating to Mental Retardation, Heritable Psychiatric Disorders, Type One Diabetes, Prenatal Genetic Counselling and Genetic Therapies for the Thalassemia during a symposium here today.
The Fifth International Symposium on Genetics, Health and Disease was being organised by the Department of Human Genetics and Centre for Genetic Disorders of the University. More than 400 delegates, including 60 from 25 countries, were participating in the international conference, according to officials.
Presenting his research, Prof N K Mehra of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, said in the Genomic era, the life expectancy could be 150 years in the next century with the precision in diagnosis and prevention of genetic disorders.
Dr
Mehra
also
said
India
was
the
Genetic
Capital
of
Type
One
Diabetes
in
the
world.
Different
Genes,
environmental
factors
and
immune
disregulation
are
the
main
causes
of
Type
One
Diabetes.
He
said
although
the
IDDM1
gene
on
chromosome
six
has
a
major
role
in
disease
causation,
there
were
at
least
16
more
genes
which
are
involved
ithe
disease
condition.
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