Management of Genetic Disease

Management of genetic diseases includes prevention and treatment. Diseases are most often prevented by genetic counselling, prenatal diagnosis and genetic screening. Genetic screening is systematic search within the population to find persons that may be liable to certain genetic disease or may have ill children.

Treatment of genetic disease fit the given disease. For example persons with phenylketonuria are put on a diet, aberration of sex chromosomes can be treated by hormonal therapy. Genetic engineering enables producing relatively cheap proteins for persons with lack of those proteins, these are for example insulin, human growth hormones. DNA recombination techniques also enable gene therapy which is providing cells of the ill person with functional copies of the gene.