The Impact of Sequencing Human Genome on the Psychosomatic Illnesses

Abstract

This abstract attempts to explore if psychosomatic illnesses are genetic in origin. The word psychosomatic comes from two roots: psycho meaning mind and somatic meaning body. The symptoms of psychosomatic illnesses are caused by emotional stress rather than an organic, physical source in the body. Our mind is outside of our brain and cannot be studied, but we can study its effect our body. To ensure if the psychosomatic illnesses have any association with our body and to identify the root cause of these illnesses in our body if any, we sequenced the human genome that is we read the entire book of our life. Our genome provides the total genetic information that make us humans. It carries the greatest catalog of human genes on planet Earth. Our genome consists of 46 volumes of encyclopedia called chromosomes which carry 24,000 chapters called genes. Of all genes in our genome, 16,000 are good genes, 6,000 bad (or mutated) genes responsible for causing six thousand different diseases and 2,000 pseudogenes which have lost their functions. Out of 6,000 variants, not a single mutated gene is linked to any symptom of psychosomatic disorders such as stress, hypertension, respiratory ailments, gastrointestinal disturbances, migraine, tension, headaches, pelvic pain, impotence, frigidity, dermatitis, ulcers. stress and anxiety. We examine the association of any of these psychosomatic symptoms with any of those six thousand mutated genes in our genome, we found no correlation with genetic diseases. We conclude that psychosomatic illnesses are not organic in nature and cannot be treated with organic molecules.