Are humans same or not???

                   

Human genome project is one of the biggest projects to find are humans has same types of genotypes and how are we different?

Humans can not be the same even if they look like same as twins their genotype always different. Lets take our favorite examples: 2 sisters are brown haired and brown eyed. These siblings have the same phenotype but since thos genes are modeled to be autosomal dominant, one of them may have 2 copies of the dominant gene and the other may have one of each but the brown dominates.

This is why genetic variability stays high in outbred populations. If you have each allele(gene copy) assorting seperately it increases the number of outcomes. This is great for overall fitness of a population. Human genome project is good example for this because you can be able to see all of humans DNA and bases.

First of all the project could done on 2003 and it was a 13-year project coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. During the early years of the HGP, the Wellcome Trust (U.K.) became a major partner; additional contributions came from Japan, France, Germany, China, and others. See our history page for more information.

Goals of the project

• identify all the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA,
• determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA,
• store this information in databases,
• improve tools for data analysis,
• transfer related technologies to the private sector, and
• address the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) that may arise from the project.

Though the HGP is finished, analyses of the data will continue for many years. Follow this ongoing research on our Milestones page. An important feature of the HGP project was the federal government's long-standing dedication to the transfer of technology to the private sector. By licensing technologies to private companies and awarding grants for innovative research, the project catalyzed the multibillion-dollar U.S. biotechnology industry and fostered the development of new medical applications.

 

17.03.2012

"Human Genome Project Information." Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Web. 20 Mar. 2012. <http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/home.shtml>.