MEDRADSC 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, Palpebral Fissure, Human Genome Project

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Medical Radiation Sciences
• Course: MEDRADSC 1B03
• Professor: Sandra Charbonneau

Document Summary

Remove defective gene & replace w a normal 1 to reduce the risk of genetic defects in newborns. Have lots of data (dna) that we have to search through. In disorders that are multifactorial (multiple genes), genetic therapy is more difficult bc of the nature of the disorder. Involves the introduction of genes into multicellular plants & animals sometimes by means of a harmless virus. 2 main approaches: transferred genes replace defective genes, selectively inhibit harmful genes. Issues: genetically modified plants & animals for human consumption. Majority of the time we are not aware that we are eating them: access genetic information. Has provided the methods for manipulating nucleic acids & recombining genes into hybrid molecules that can be inserted into unicellular organisms & reproduced several times over. World wide project that determined millions of base pairs in human dna strand.