The Human Genome Project: Its Implications for Educators

The human genome project: its implications in clinical medicine.

The greatest impact of the Human Genome Project on clinical medicine is the appreciation of the extra-ordinary molecular and biochemical individuality of each patient. Gene polymorphism occurs in 1 in 1000 DNA base pairs in the human genome. This is reflected in the diversity of the gene products structural proteins, enzymes, channel proteins, transporters and binding proteins, receptors and po...

Searching for the Holy Grail: the Human Genome Project and its implications.

Implications of the Human Genome Project for medical science.

The year 2000 marked both the start of the new millennium and the announcement that the vast majority of the human genome had been sequenced. Much work remains to understand how this "instruction book for human biology" carries out its multitudes of functions. But the consequences for the practice of medicine are likely to be profound. Genetic prediction of individual risks of disease and respo...

ASHG human genome committee report. The human genome project: implications for human genetics.

The Human Genome Project will impact significantly on all branches ofhuman genetics, from the most basic research to the most practical clinical applications. The project also has social and legal implications that will impact mostly on human geneticists involved in patient care and genetic counseling. To assess this impact and to advise The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), the societ...

[The Human Genome Project: ethical and social implications].

This article explores some of the potential moral and social ramifications of the Human Genome Project. Research on the human genome is generating important ethical and social questions of at least three distinct kinds. First, what genetic information should be generated, and who should control its dissemination and use? Improved diagnostic techniques such as presymptomatic testing, carrier scr...