ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 7

A perusal of human genome project with reference to human rights

  • Author:
  • Amit K Kashyap
  • Total Page Count: 11
  • Page Number: 123 to 133

Assistant Professor, Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India

Online published on 22 September, 2015.

Abstract

The Human Genome Project was initiated in 1990, in USA, coordinated by DOE and NIH with a purpose to identify the approximate 100,000 genes in human&determine the sequences of the more than 3 billion bases that make up human DNA. Every cell in our body has the same DNA is made up of four similar chemicals abbreviated A, T, C, and G that are repeated millions or billions of times throughout a genome. Thus the human genome may have more than 3 billion pairs of bases.