The Human Genome Project

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1) (20 points) The Human Genome Project (HGP) – Awesome Achievement… for what?
The Human Genome Project has guided the medical field and has chnaged many lives. With having the human genome project you can now look into your genetrics and find mutation sin your own geneome to find out what you have or are at risk of having. Also with human genemeing we have found areas in the gene that represent a certaint disorder and with medican we can help change the issue within the body. For example there was a boy with who was getting sick and wasnt getting better. The family had a last ditch effort to save the boy and did a Genome testing and found out there was a gene that caused him to have this issue insdie his boyd. The docotres performed a bone

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