Dr. Ko Tsang-ming of NTUH says that to date around 10,000 genes associated with hereditary diseases have been detected, but less than 100 are well understood, and because carriers often have no symptoms, such diseases cannot be prevented.
台大醫院醫師柯滄銘指出，目前測出單一性遺傳疾病的基因約有一萬個，但實際上醫學界很清楚知道的不到百種，更由於是隱性遺傳，事先無法預防。