Judit Kiss, Veronika Suhajdáné Urbán, Hargita Hegyesi

Applied Biology


The human genome project: goals and perspectives

The Human Genome Project (HGP) has significantly accelerated the pace of both the discovery of human genes and the development of new health care strategies based on acknowledge of a gene’s structure and function. The new knowledge and technologies emerging from HGP-related research also are reducing the cost of finding human genes. For example, the search for the gene associated with cystic fibrosis, which ended in 1989, before the inception of the HGP, required more than eight years and 50 million$. In contrast, finding a gene associated with a Mendelian disorder now can be accomplished in less than a year at a cost of approximately 100000$. The last few years of research into human genetic variation also have seen a gradual transition from a primary focus on genes associated with single-gene disorders, which are relatively rare in the human population, to an increasing focus on genes associated with multifactorial diseases. Because these diseases are not rare, we can expect that this work will affect many more people.

Applied Biology

Tartalomjegyzék


Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2020

ISBN: 978 963 454 526 2

Hivatkozás: https://mersz.hu/hegyesi-kiss-suhajdane-applied-biology//

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