This particular chromosome has been linked to at least 35 disease. Among them are schizophrenia, some cancers and heart disease. The genetic sequence of chromosome 21 was completed in May 2000, and is involved with Downs syndrome. The positive implications of the Genome Research Project are overwhelmingly promising regarding discoveries that will lead to the termination of certain diseases from the human experience. As with many controversial things is this world, the potential for good and evil coexists.
Genome research has the possibility for ultimate good, or ultimate corruption.
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