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- initialism
Human Genome Project
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I tag HGP, M and/or D, Whimsy, Lex10 and Xtin let’s see if this will cause her to emit signal.
Book Meme 2008
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I tag HGP, M and/or D, Whimsy, Lex10 and Xtin let’s see if this will cause her to emit signal.
Book Meme 2008
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Yet the HGP — as viewed in the light of those promises and tactics — has been a failure and a stark failure at that.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Would the Public Support “Cap and Refund”? 2010
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) devoted 3% to 5% of their annual Human Genome Project (HGP) budgets toward studying the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) surrounding availability of genetic information.
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In the case of the HGP it resulted in billions of dollars being budgeted by the U.S.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Would the Public Support “Cap and Refund”? 2010
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BiDil quickly became the poster child for personalized therapies in the post HGP era; it was thought that racial disparities in health (in this case, heart failure mortality) could be reduced by targeting the specific biological mechanisms that give rise to minorities 'disproportionately poor outcomes.
Osagie K. Obasogie: "Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated": Race and Genetics Ten Years After the Human Genome Project Osagie K. Obasogie 2010
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The less than 1% of human variation identified by HGP researchers reflects millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms, or small individual differences in DNA that may loosely correlate with geography.
Osagie K. Obasogie: "Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated": Race and Genetics Ten Years After the Human Genome Project Osagie K. Obasogie 2010
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While subsequent research has slightly lowered this initial estimate to around 99.5%, much of the excitement around the Human Genome Project's (HGP) June 2000 announcement focused on this seemingly conclusive finding that social categories of race, as a coherent way of understanding biological differences between human groups, are largely meaningless.
Osagie K. Obasogie: "Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated": Race and Genetics Ten Years After the Human Genome Project Osagie K. Obasogie 2010
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While DNA forensics predates the HGP announcement, its expansion over the past decade has been astonishing.
Osagie K. Obasogie: "Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated": Race and Genetics Ten Years After the Human Genome Project Osagie K. Obasogie 2010
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This can be seen through at least three developments in the post HGP era.
Osagie K. Obasogie: "Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated": Race and Genetics Ten Years After the Human Genome Project Osagie K. Obasogie 2010
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