In the state Duma has proposed to introduce the country’s mass genetic screening of individuals to detect unrecognized disease and hereditary predispositions. With this idea the Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said a member of the state Duma Committee on natural resources, property and land relations of Alexey Voevoda.
The MP believes that screening will in the event of biological threats to ensure the gradation of the degree of risk that will contribute to the preservation of jobs and minimizes human and economic losses. In particular, we are now using DNA to identify people who are almost insensitive to the virus COVID-19. Also screening will make the CHI system is personalized, which is based on the personal characteristics of a person contained in his or her genetic profile.
In the future genetic data can and should be used in creating a methodological framework for the detection and prevention of genetic pathologies, — said the Governor.
As he told “Parlamentskaya Gazeta”, to implement the screening at the state level, worry about data security when using domestic software and it is stored on a secure Russian server is not necessary.
To create a national database of genetic information Vladimir Putin suggested at a meeting may 14. Then he announced that Russia in the framework of the national project “Science” will create three genomic center of the world level. Each centre, he said, will be a consortium of “research institutes, universities, industrial and innovative companies, and from Novosibirsk to Crimea.” The head of state also said that it is important to develop genetics that problems on scale, and breakthrough value for the country is comparable with nuclear and space projects of the twentieth century, wrote NEWS.ru.
