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This is America Dissected.

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Elsaid.

I remember hearing about this sitting in my high school biology class.

Today the world is joining us here in the East Room to behold a map of even greater significance.

We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome.

Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind.

The sequencing of the human genome lets us some really high profile and really important

discoveries.

Discoveries like the genes TNF or TP53, which are critical in the pathways for cancer.

But more than anything, the human genome project showed us that genetics are anything but simple.

Most of the serious diseases we deal with aren't what we call Mendelian.

Don't follow the simple genetic rules that you might have learned about in high school,

where there's a dominant and recessive gene and your phenotype is a function of the mix

of what you inherited from your parents.

Unlike, say, cystic fibrosis, a rare but devastating genetic lung disease or sickle cell disease,

a debilitating genetic blood disorder, most genetic diseases are the result of a vast

array of interactions between various genes and the environment in which you grew up.

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