who's the director of the institute of human and medical genetics of the bird and charity and who is a researcher here at the mechanics institute for molecular genetics welcome to get she. did take tests going to far reaching consequences so before you do a genetic test get informed what it really means and talk to your doctor. some diseases can actually be caused by genes take colon cancer or breast cancer for example some special forms can be inherited it's a simple blood test can tell you if you're affected. and i go to is a retired physician for a long time he didn't know that he has an unusually high risk of getting a certain kind of cancer. it's a genetic risk he was born way of. the 21st man a motor when i was 20 my mother died of metta started colon cancer. while she was in hospital she warned my sister or me that we might get it too. and that it might be genetic and. like his mother a white or studied medicine but he didn't remember how warning until some of his own patients who had the disease reminded him. quite a began to go for regular checkups and for many years everything was fine when examining doctors found no sign of a disease he felt relie