What is the "Human Genome Project", and how does it affect the future of neurology?

What is the "Human Genome Project", and how does it affect the future of neurology?

The human genome project is going to give us information and allow us to look once we are able to get proper studies in the families and so forth. So there actually tens of millions dollars that have been spent on looking for genetic susceptibility genes in most diseases. Whether it be heart disease, Type 1 Diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, MS, etc. So lots of money being spent to say, well, if you're 25 can I determine whether you are gonna get this disease. And if I can, how will I keep you from getting it. Well that's, that's a critical issue. It doesn't do you much good to know that you're gonna get this disease when you're 80 if we can't prevent you from getting the disease. So I think these are issues that have to be worked out. There are financial, the societal and there's alot of difficulties. For instance, if we have somebody who we've identified as having a susceptibility gene when they get to be 50 or 60 to a particular disease, what does that do to their health insurance? What does that do for their life insurance? What does that do to their employer? Employer may not want to hire them, even though they may never get the disease. So these are issues that are not easy to deal with. And they have to be dealt with.