You will soon be able to easily find out which deadly illnesses your genes predispose you to get, thanks to an Israeli invention.

Dr Yuval Tabach, the senior scientist at the Hebrew University’s Institute for Medical Research in Jerusalem, has created an online tool which reads your genetic map to tell you whether you could get cancer or genetic diseases.

Once you have inputted your genetic make-up, the software will search its constantly updated index to let you know which conditions — if any — you should prepare to face.

With the cost of mapping your genome down from £1.72bn — when the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003 — to just £600 nowadays, knowing your future is a very real possibility.

Dr Tabach said: “The significance of this tool is that anyone, physician or researcher, can input results from genetic mapping studies concerning suspected genes, and the tool will identify evolutionary, and probably functional, connections to known genes with association to diseases.

“The process is rapid, without cost or time wasted, and enables the identification of genes responsible for diseases.”