However, its findings also raise profound ethical issues. She qualified in medicine and did her finals in genetics. After working for Save the Children in North Africa she went to University College London in 1970 and has stayed there ever since, working on human genetics. She was part of the team that found the second of the two genes that causes tuberous sclerosis and is on the Council of the Human Genome Organisation. Background It is the biological equivalent of putting someone on the Moon.
Gene mapping is all about locating genes.
Although a great deal of work had been done on human gene mapping and sequencing through the 1970s and 1980s, the Human Genome Project really took off in the 1990s. By August 1998 some 16,000 of the 80,000 or so human genes had been sequenced and the hope is that the entire job will be finished by 2003, possibly earlier - you can place bets on the likely completion date. Question 1 Suppose you set out to recite the entire sequence of human DNA in a human cell and that you could read three bases a second out loud.