Dear All
Those interested in how the Human Genome Project is being extended to
begin to answer Alan Reese's questions may wish to look at the HAPMAP
web sie at;
http://www.hapmap.org/abouthapmap.html
Best wishes
Dave Gordon
Allan Reese wrote:
>Guardian
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>>>What has also emerged from the Human Genome Project is just how dynamic
>>>and
>>>fluid our genetic make-up can be, and the extent to which it is influenced
>>>by nutrition, pollution, disease, family life and education.
>>>
>>>
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>>At 19:21 14/11/03 +0000, Ray Thomas wrote: >This is really
>>fascinating...
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>No, it is journalistic hyperbole. My understanding of the HGP is that it
>analysed the DNA sequence of a specific individual (or a very small
>number), and I have been baffled as to how the proponents expect to extend
>this to a meaningful understanding of the range of variation that might be
>(a) usual (b) helpful (c) random and irrelevant (d) harmful or (e)
>quickly fatal within units that might be identified as "genes". I suspect
>that as our understanding improves we will move from any idea of genes as
>discrete, non-interacting, sequences of bases.
>
>In respect of the topic under discussion, appealing to the HGP has, in my
>view, no more force than touching a rabbit's foot.
>
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