Exciting new test for Sz?

This is a potentially very exciting artocle for those of you who follow this blog for personal reasons. That is, the dark finger of mental illness is motioning come hither.

http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=300246&Category=8

"Within two years, a Kentucky medical genetics company plans to market a home
test designed to help consumers determine whether they are genetically
susceptible to schizophrenia. The test, performed at home and analyzed in a lab,
is the culmination of 10 years of research --"

The article discusses the looming availability of a home test for mental illness. The Canton newspaper reporter did not wriet about the focus of the gentic components on which the test will focus, but this could mean a screening for childeren's suscptibility:

In a soon-to-be published study, Jehannine C. Austin, a neurochemist and
genetic researcher at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, surveyed
family members of patients with psychiatric illness. A quarter chose not to
have children, she said, based on an overestimated risk that they would have a
child with a disorder. According to the SureGene Web site, ``Schizophrenia
does not present until the second or third decade of life,'' and siblings of
schizophrenics are, on average, 10 times more likely to develop the disease than
the general population.``Naturally, parents with one affected child are concerned about the health of their other children. Further, even though siblings may not themselves develop the disease, their children and grandchildren are at increased risk. Such siblings are in need of valid genetic risk assessment for family planning purposes,'' the Web site points out.

and, perhaps more importnatly, gene therapy for people with mental illness.

I am not a big believer in "correcting" mother natures mistakes. but when the crush of illness visited me, I do what all animals do: I try to survive. Gloves off, philosophy aside, its time to fight to live.

Let me know what you think.