Scientists claim to have found that each human being has around 60 different mutations in their genes, a discovery which suggests genetic tests may run the risk of misdiagnosing patients with a high mutation rate.
A research by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge and two other institutes in the US and Canada showed that a person receives up to 60 mutations in his or her genome from parents. It shows that human genomes (our genetic makeup carried on 23 pairs of chromosomes) are mutated in both sperm and egg cells, resulting in changes to our DNA seen in neither parent, the Daily Mail reported.
It also suggests that genetic tests could run the risk of misdiagnosing patients with a high mutation rate because samples may not typify the mutations.