The study of human behavior and the elucidation of the genetic component of those behaviors are exciting prospects in the era of the Human Genome Project. The increased ability to perform genetic analysis and identification in the current biomedical research environment will enhance the ability to catalogue important genes affecting human traits. The HGP is revolutionizing the way biology and medicine will be explored in this new century. The human genome project will provide much information leading to the identification of the genes that contribute to behavior, but since most behaviors are made up of multiple genes acting in concert, the task will still be formidable. Disentangling the different contributions of multiple genes and identifying those genes can be simplified by the human genome project, but until the functional characterization of the newly identified sequences is performed the job is not finished.
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