human genome project

• human genome project was to find every single human gene and the sequence
• Managed to get 20,000 genes
• found 1,800 genes related to disease in human genome
• diseases like cancer and heart disease are caused from life style factors and different genes interacting
• If doctors knew what genes were causing what disease they could do individual advice on diet and lifestyle choices to avoid problems
• Doctors could also ensure early treatment and regular checks to disease susceptible to
• inherited disease is due to more than one faulty allele in someone’s genome
• genome project allows identification of alleles that cause this faster and develop better treatments
• human genome project highlighted common genetic variation between people
• some genes determine how people will react to certain diseases and possible treatments
• Knowledge can be used to design new drugs
• Takes like twenty three years