DNA test may predict your child's talent-ACTN3 sports gene

 

An increasing number of curious parents are going to subject their children to a DNA test to determine what they will be best at as adults in future.

Already in the developed countries like us and Europe such tests have progressed to determine the child's potential IQ,memory power.

It will help the parents the way they  groom  children.

Even, India has started using to  to ascertain what sport their children will do best in when they grow up.
“Analysis of the ACTN3 gene can be used to predict the kind of muscle fibre the child will develop as he/she grows up. Based on this we can figure out the body’s capacity to adapt to different sports,” says a leading orthopedic surgeon,Mr Naresh Padmanaban in Chennai.

The sample can collect as many as 10,000 cells that enable scientists to isolate up to 40 different genes.

By studying the genetic code, scientists can extract specialized DNA information about a child's IQ, athletic ability, artistic ability, emotional control, focus and other talents and even health and disease related factors.

Doctors use information extracted from what they claim is the "sports Gene" to predict what kind of game the child will be best suited to.