Human Genome Project
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- Human Genome Project
- International scientific research project with the goals of:
- - To work out the order or sequence of all the three billion base pairs in the human genome
- - To identify all the genes
- - To develop faster methods for sequencing DNA
- - To identify all the genes
- - To work out the order or sequence of all the three billion base pairs in the human genome
- A genome is the genetic material of an organism
- The sequencing project finished in 2001, and work continues to identify all the genes in the human genome.
- It is important because it uses information from DNA to develop new ways to treat, cure, or even prevent the thousands of diseases that afflict humankind
- Benefits
- Improved genetic testing
- Location of genes that might be linked to increased chances of inheriting a disease
- New gene therapy treatments
- New knowledge of how humans have evolved
- Personalised medicines
- Applications
- Genotyping of specific viruses for appropriate treatment
- The design of medication and more accurate prediction of their effects
- Identification of mutations linked to different forms of cancer
- Issues
- Employers and health insurance companies would refuse to hire or provide insurance to people because of a health concern indicated by someone's genes
- Patients expect more from their doctors'
- The sequence of the DNA is stored in databases available to anyone on the Internet.
- International scientific research project with the goals of:
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