Children's talent genetic testing project quoted tens of thousands, with saliva testing talent reliable?

Recently, the market through saliva to detect children's natural genes project, which mentioned "gifts" involving thirst for knowledge, memory, stress resistance, learning ability, mathematical computing ability, reading ability, etc. , fees ranging from several hundred yuan to tens of thousands of dollars.
many parents of children are convinced that high-tech means can be used to guide the development of a child's certain talent instructions.
, can a little saliva detect a child's talent? How to identify which consumer-grade genetic testing in the market is based on spectrum? At the recommendation of a doctor friend, Ms. Jane, a 5-year-old, spent more than 10,000 yuan on a child's natural genetic test.
sent her son's saliva sample to Beijing and received a detailed report. Ms.
believes that "this kind of testing is based on big data reasoning, there should be some truth."
" recently, the reporter in Changsha City, a mother and child products shop saw an advertisement: buy 699 yuan children's talent genetic testing priority version, test the child's six abilities, including thirst for knowledge, memory, pressure resistance, learning ability, mathematical computing ability, reading ability.
test results can help parents improve their children's academic performance, social skills, and help their babies perform better.
"699 yuan is just an entry-level product, there are several thousand yuan of advanced version.
" store salesman told reporters that the child's natural genetic testing is "scientifically based."
but the reporter asked what kind of detection technology is used, the other side is not clear, but rather quite mysteriously said that "this company has access to the Internet 'big man' investment."
reporter's survey found that the talent genetic testing products in some mother and child shops, insurance companies, early education institutions, health medical institutions have sales.
, online search can also find a number of products, some product introductions also listed "leadership" "adventure spirit" and other testing items.
in a large e-commerce platform, an online shop launched four children's talent genetic testing package, the list price range from 4600 yuan to 33,600 yuan, 33,600 yuan package contains 48 items, have interpersonal / communicative skills, sense of responsibility, precocious, affinity, music talent and so on.
another store, a product called a comprehensive children's DNA saliva genetic testing package, selling for up to 69,800 yuan.
reporters noted that the vast majority of testing institutions have played a "scientific guide to children's growth" "cultivation does not take detours" and other slogans, there are some testing institutions will be promoted will not be marked "not recommended to ignore the environment, education, personal interests and other factors, but the results of genetic testing as the only guidance of child capacity development."
, some parents said that such a statement is more like "shake the pot", "can not be genius is the day after the fault", but also because the results can not be verified, the credibility of the test is doubted.
's Children's Talent Genetic Testing Program has found that most companies that promote child talent genetic testing programs are not themselves testing, they are just commercial agents.
search on the Internet "talented genetic testing", will retrieve a large number of investment to join the information, it is advertised as a "small investment, fast income, simple operation" of the "100 billion blue sea market."
information that joined the agent to become a natural genetic testing has a "low threshold, zero risk, high return" advantages, if the average one day can sell a product, the annual return will reach 500,000 yuan, the return on investment of stores as high as 230%.
a few days ago, the reporter and a technology company in Shenzhen, the investment manager to get in touch.
the other side informed that the natural genetic test has 5 categories of 25 small items, including emotional intelligence, IQ, physical fitness, art and so on.
" full set of market pricing is 8550 yuan, give agents a discount of 1.8 percent to 2.6 percent, the project profit margin of 74% to 82%.
" the manager said, do not need agent fees and joining fees, only need to prepay 60,000 yuan to become agents.
companies will train on how to expand their business, such as through marketing, or "grafting" moon centers, mother and baby shops, pharmacies, early education institutions, etc.
" Bao Ma Bao's parents to the child's input is not stingy, value is value.
," he said.
the manager gave an example to reporters about the project's huge profit margins and hot agent market: "more than 400 county-level agents, the average monthly profit of 41,000 yuan in 2018, remove rent, water and electricity costs, a year net income of 230,000 yuan no problem."
city agents will earn more.
" insiders told reporters that children's talent genetic testing sales channels to agent-based, most companies themselves do not have the ability to detect, they are only responsible for pulling people' heads, so that consumers can send samples to the institutions that can do testing, to earn high marketing costs.
" chip technology is very low cost, only a few hundred yuan, sequencing slightly higher, but also very cheap.
if you look for a third-party company to test samples, samples, if the cost is lower.
"consumer-grade genetic testing into the public eye" genetic testing, mainly to detect the risk of your illness, ranging from low risk, general risk to high risk, allowing people to self-examine the likelihood of a certain disease.
but it's important to stress that even if you're at a high risk side, it doesn't mean you're 100 percent at risk, but you're at a relatively high risk.
", said Ai Hua, a professor at the Nutrition Research Office of the Institute of Sports Medicine at Peking University's Third Hospital, to the Science and Technology Daily.
generally speaking, different from professional-grade genetic testing related to scientific research and medical care, consumer-grade genetic testing is directly targeted at the general public, and the price is not very high.
detects the user's health risks, nutritional metabolism, food sensitivity and motor ability by taking a small sample of saliva.
in response to the personalized needs of the public, specialized institutions have also developed a wide range of services, such as adult nutrition, obesity, children's nutrition campaign and other single testing, some up to 58 sub-items.
at present, professional consumer-grade genetic testing is based on the latest scientific results at home and abroad, such as the internationally renowned journal Dermatology Journal has published an article that people at a very old age hair whitening is mainly determined by genetic factors, and which gene has a certain correlation with the production of fishtail or obesity. "Consumer-grade genetic testing is very necessary to promote, for consumers to accurately manage their own health to provide a scientific basis," said
Aihua.
"Not every so-called talent can be measured" to some extent, genetic testing can test someone's athletic talent to see if it's an endurance or explosive athlete.
but not that we understand every so-called talent can be measured, such as people's social skills, memory and stress resistance, many of these behaviors by the environment such as social, family and other factors.
", says Dr Stuart Glees, a member of the Oxford University Society for Disease Genomics.
2016, an article published in China's core journal Sports Science and Technology said that the results of the study of China's outstanding Han chinese middle and long distance swimmers showed that the frequency of a gene RR-type site called auxiliary motor protein 3 (ACTN3) in the genome was significantly higher than other genotypes, which can be used as a molecular marker for the selection of the outstanding athletes of the project.
2017, researchers at the European University of Madrid in Spain and other institutions also mentioned the ACTN3 gene in an article published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in 2017, which is associated with the football player population.
"is it worth noting that a lot of information that regulates DNA links cannot be detected at this time, and they play an important role in the human body, so genetic testing does not reveal all the mysteries of the human body.
," Aiwa stressed.
the lack of natural genes based on child talent genetic testing? "The natural gene determines the child's future development is a false proposition.
" Wang Chengzhi, M.D., M.D., Peking University, believes that the natural gene is not fully scientifically based, and that its logic is based on published correlations between genes and phenotype, and that even some genes with clear scientific evidence and a certain ability are not representative of a person's talent. "For example, the 'auxiliary motor protein 3' gene is often used to detect athletic talent, " said Wang Chengzhi,
.
the R-type variant of the gene may allow the body to produce a protein that is present in fast muscle fibers, providing explosive power, while the X-shaped mutation inhibits the production of this protein.
people who are tested for R-type mutations are called 'sporting talents', there is no direct link between whether a person becomes a sportsman and whether or not a person carries the mutation, and each person's ability is determined by a number of factors, and the contribution of each gene is not a determining factor.
" reporter survey found that the market of a number of children's gift genetic testing institutions to provide a variety of test results, in addition to music, mathematics, painting and other common options, some expressed as "self-transcendability" "leadership" and so on, and some expressed as "self-reflection" "precocious" and so on.
experts say this means that the results of some specific genes and the association of a particular kind of talent have different interpretations, there is no consistent, standardized identification.
the industry insiders believe that based on current technology, the genetic test results directly infertheted from children's talent is not accurate.
"It is irresponsible to speculate on whether a child has the right talent on a single gene."
", a teacher in the field of molecular and genetic biology at a university, said that one-sided through several or dozens of related gene site testing to determine the child's talent is very unreliable, because genetic testing requires a large number of clinical samples, and need to confirm and prove, the environment of the day after nature is much more important than talent growth.
, according to The Chinese Academy of Education and Sciences researcher, Zhang Zhaoxuan, from a child-rearing point of view, there is a real need to understand where the child has the talent and potential, but talent is not a machine can be measured at once.
"Parents' money is best earned for businesses.
But if you use the results of a commercial organization to raise a child, it may interfere with or even delay the child's normal development.
", in order to identify reliable genetic testing, china's existing consumer-grade gene testing companies more than 200.
predicts that 50 million people in China will have their own genome data by 2022.
, how do consumers identify genetic testing programs that are on the market? Grace suggests three points to pay attention to: professionalism, such as whether its research and many universities have cooperation; "In addition to detection, the issuance of a professional interpretation report is also an important identification method, " said
Aihua.
, for example, the secondary motor protein 3 gene is often used to detect motor talent.
the R-type variant of the gene may allow the body to produce a protein that is present in fast muscle fibers, providing explosive power, while the X-shaped mutation inhibits the production of this protein.
therefore, the report should indicate which gene corresponds to the relevant results.
"Source: Science Daily