Genetic disorders on the rise .:. NewKerala – India’s Top Online Newspaper says

Genetic Disorders are “enormous” in rural India and proper therapy for genetic problems is the need of the hour, Dr L Singh, Director of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, said.
Inaugurating a one-day Indo-Australian symposim on “Pharmacogenomics” here today,he said 5,000 genetic disorders have been detected in the country and changing lifestyles have been found to be the main cause for genetic diseases.