Commercial implications of the Human Genome Project

摘要

The Human Genome Project (HGP) promises to have a major impact on the development of genetics and molecular medicine. Like the recombinant-DNA revolution two decades before it, the genomic revolution has spawned a biotechnology industry based upon positional, rather than functional, cloning that is consuming millions of dollars. The progress of the HGP in 1996 was reviewed at a recent meeting that placed emphasis on the industrial and commercial applications of genomic knowledge, and that focused onthe value of this information.