Monday, January 26, 2015

The Human Genome Project

   I really don't know much about the Human Genome Project, we just watched a video about it in school. I do think that the project could help find out what causes autism or what genetics cause autism though....I saw one person in the video take DNA samples from his patients with a muscle disease and found made major discoveries about all humans. If samples are taken from people with autism and without and then compared think of what we could find! What if autism could be in everyone, it just has to be turned on?!? (switches in the body will turn on or off different genes that could effect people in so many different ways) This is just a theory, but it fascinates me so much that it hasn't been tried....or it has been tried and the autistic community hasn't heard yet!!!! I want to be there and know right away when they have answered the questions I have always been asking! I hope sometime soon we will have this knowledge, and if not I plan to start doing my part to solve the puzzle!