Does anyone know anything about the human genome project?
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The Human Genome Project (HGP) was one of the great feats of exploration in history -- an inward voyage of discovery rather than an outward exploration of the planet or the cosmos; an international research effort to sequence and map all of the genes - together known as the genome - of members of our species, Homo sapiens. Completed in April 2003, the HGP gave us the ability to, for the first time, to read nature's complete genetic blueprint for building a human being.\n\nyou can go to:\n\nhttp://www.genome.gov/10001772, http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/home.shtml\nhttp://www.doegenomes.org/\nhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SCIENCE96/
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The only down side I could possible see would be one of privacy - what are they going to do with YOUR data?  What if they store it away and 10 years from now science isolates a gene for the onset of some awful disease - and somehow your DNA shows up in some database somewhere as having this and medical insurance company gets ahold of it and drops you... same with your life insurance because of a "pre-existing condition"...  Not that this hasn't probably been taken care of by the researcher's lawyers.  Also, this wouldn't stop me from participating.\n\nThis is actually a facinating topic.  I have often thought this sort of study would be especially good for the African decendents outside Africa compared with those in Africa - this would be interesting since a great many African-Americans and -Europeans ancestors were victims of the slave trade and would have no means to trace their ancestory.  At least if they can isolate certain genes, they could find the areas their ancestors may have been from.
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The Human Genome project.  Advances in science and technology made the studying/recording of the human genome much faster and much less expensive than the government had originally budgeted/planned for.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1087193\n\n\nthis should answer all your questions, hope it helps
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>>>What do you think of the Genographic Project?\n\n\nIt’s a great idea. Knowledge can never be a bad thing.\n\n>>>>>Do you think that people will be more apt to believe in evolution or the "creation" theory because of the project?\n\nThe only people who fail to accept evolution now are those who are prepared to deny the very existence of scientific evidence that contradicts their cultural myths. Those sorts of people will deny any evidence that comes out of this too if it contradicts those same myths. So it can’t make any difference to them.\n\nPeople who are prepared to change their views based on scientific evidence all universally accept evolution already. So it can’t change the opinions of those people unless it somehow casts doubt on the plausibility of human evolution.\n\n>>>>>>>>>There is already evidence that all genetic roots lead to Africa. So far, they date the common female ancestor to between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago in central Africa and the common male ancestor to between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago from the same area. What will be the impact of this?\n\nProbably not very much. It’s hard to see anything controversial or revolutionary coming out of this. The mitochondrial Eve and Y Adam for example have both been known for 15 years or more. This study will most likely narrow down the dates and geographic locations for those people, but little else.\n\nThe most likely practical change to come out of this is the same change that has trickled down from the human genome project and the work of Cavalli-Sfora, which is that people will abandon the assumption that race has any biological coherence. Already we’ve seen research into the effects of drugs on racial lines called into serious question and more or less abandoned for example.\n\nIt’s hard to see any other outcomes of much interest to anyone but the boffins.
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You are talking aboujt a thesis here. This sounds like a school asignment so i suggest you go and do your own reseacrh.\n\nTrangeneics is a relatively new field that has taken off in recent years. You are manipulating the genome to creat specific actions. For example, in a mouse you can insert a gene that codes for  a particular brain receptor. You would isolate this gene, and use a plasmid vector and insert it into the mous eline and you now have the gene in a mouse. These are called engineered or transgenic mice. You can also do what is called a knockout, where you remove a aprticular gene to test an effect.\n\nThere is a TON of info in scientific journals, online and in texts. Do some background. For a specific question or to clarify I will gladly help, but Yahoo answers is NOT where you go to get your homework done.
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A project in what subject?
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try this\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
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Well, that is the Holy Grail of biochemistry and we've been dreaming of that ever since Dr. Pauling had me researching metabolic diseases, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome in particular.  The problem has been 1) finding the precise genetic coding of the fouled up part of the DNA and 2) devising a mechanism to clip out that nucleic base and replace it with the correct one (or series of bases).  Precision is, of course, vital or you'll kill the experimental animal (or, ultimately, human patient).
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good luck: http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookPLANTANAT.html
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have you tried doing a yahoo.com search on the subject. It is quite a common project so there will be plenty of information on the subject.
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No. I think you are missing the point of the human genome. Nobody is claiming to know all there is to understand about all human beings. No test will ever do that. But humans are 99.9% genetically the same since we are the same species, and by understanding the human genome, information will be learned that will benefit many.
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do a yahoo or google search on "gene sequence" Then look for what you want. Was it human genes?
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No it has not.  I would imagine even if we know the location of the gene (I bet its multiple genes) it often does not target treatment...yet.  There are a number of diseases that have been mapped but the treatments have not been affected.  Its one thing to know the where.  It is an entirely different thing to know the how.  \n\nOne day I would hope we might even be able to insert recombinate DNA to cure or treat these disease processes.
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Scientists in Finland are working on one, and ready to reveal details:\nHere is a link for you:\nhttp://www.enterprisemission.com/antigrav.html
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Just have a look at the sites\nhttp://www.DNA-NEWS.ORG \nhttp://www.GENETIC.ORG.UK \nhttp://www.cell-stem.com\nhttp://www.dna-research.org\nhttp://www.dna-rna.org\nhttp://www.dnasequencing.info\nhttp://www.junk-dna.com\nhttp://www.testing-dna.org
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Multiple NASA web sites have the info that you seek.\nGood luck with your project and let me know how it turns out?