Genotyping at Birth

Genotyping is the process of looking into an individual’s genotype and revealing the alleles inherited from their parents. It can be used to determine diseases that may occur in their later life (i.e Alzheimers, cancer). This topic of genotyping is specifically targeted at genotyping at birth, where we look into the genotypes of a fetus during pregnancy or early after birth. This topic may have mixed ideals among society but it is logically beneficial. This could be beneficial to anybody at a young age. It can “redesign” a stage of life for the better. Knowing what will happen to a person in their early years, he or she can have therapy to prevent any dangerous outcomes.

There are also many risks to genotyping at birth. It can negatively impact the future of human life and be potentially harmful. Some outcomes may not be able to be changed and a person will know how they will live. For example, a person knows he with have cancer in his adult stages but the chance of him not being able to “cure” it is inevitable. He will know he is destined to die early.

We came to five people to ask them questions revolving around genotyping and genotyping at birth.

Genotyping at birth can be moral and immoral, it is determined to be by chance. It is immoral for a person to know that they will die of a disease early in life and have nothing to do about it. It is moral to know about a disease you will have and cure it. This topic currently impacts this generation. I think humans should not consider re-designing life. It will interrupt the way of evolution and we will not evolve naturally but evolve to the way of the humans mind.

Here are the resources in APA format.
  -Arthur Pombuena and Joshua Viray

Illumina, (n.d), Genotyping, Illumina©, Retrieved from http://www.illumina.com/applications/genotyping.html

Life, (n.d), Genotyping & Genomic Profiling, Life Technologies, Retrieved from http://www.lifetechnologies.com/us/en/home/life-science/gene-expression-analysis-genotyping/genotyping-genomic-profiling.html

Wiki, (n.d), Genotyping, Wikipedia, Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genotyping

Coriell Institute, (n.d), What is Genotyping and Expression Profiling?, Coriell Institute, Retrieved from https://www.coriell.org/research-services/genotyping-microarray/what-is-genotyping-and-expression-profiling