A Summary Of The Hapmap Project

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When I started watching the Ted Talk "How juries are fooled by statistics” and seen it lasted over 20 minutes, I must say I was not excited. However, it proved to be very interesting. There were several aspects of this video that I found were particularly interesting. The HapMap Project is one of them. This project is an effort to try to understand where the differences are between different people. As a nurse, this was very interesting. To have to ability to know and understand how some differences make some people susceptible to certain diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke and autism, these findings could impact our society and the healthcare industry in a major way. As well as trying to understand what it is about genetics

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