Results

·         Damaged base pairs increases chance of health problems by heredity.

·         Humans have more repetitive gens than any other mammal.

·      There are approximately 20,500 genes in human beings, about the same range as in mice.That is one of the reasons why rats are used for genetic and medicine/drug studies.

·         Number of genes we have are much smaller than we thought.

·      Most importantly, techniques found out at HGP changed the way scientitsts and researchers approach to genetics.