A health service is considering a voluntary programme that would use genome information in two ways:

to tell adults whether they carry allele R, which has been associated with condition X
to help doctors choose a medicine for patients who develop condition X.

The results of two pilot studies are shown.

Allele R	Number of adults studied	Number who developed condition X
present	600	108
absent	2400	96

Method used to choose a medicine	Number of patients	Number whose condition improved	Number who had significant side effects
genomic information	250	180	20
standard method	200	104	36

The improvement and side-effect outcomes were recorded separately.

Discuss whether the health service should introduce the programme.

Use the data and your knowledge of genome information in medicine.

A health service is considering a voluntary programme that would use genome information in two ways:

to tell adults whether they carry allele R, which has been associated with condition X
to help doctors choose a medicine for patients who develop condition X.

The results of two pilot studies are shown.

Allele R	Number of adults studied	Number who developed condition X
present	600	108
absent	2400	96

Method used to choose a medicine	Number of patients	Number whose condition improved	Number who had significant side effects
genomic information	250	180	20
standard method	200	104	36

The improvement and side-effect outcomes were recorded separately.

Discuss whether the health service should introduce the programme.

Use the data and your knowledge of genome information in medicine.

3.4 Variation and the Human Genome Project

3.4 Variation and the Human Genome Project Questions