Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to J Bal.
Human Genome Project has already produced a draft sequence of the human genome. The article discusses scientific and some social aspects of the Human Genome Project, especially its influence on practice and the future of molecular medicine.
The results of DNA analysis with the aid of specific molecular probes are discussed. DNA analysis involved 22 families of a high risk of cystic fibrosis. A significance of the obtained results in genetic counselling is also discussed. DNA analysis enabled detection or exclusion of cystic fibrosis gene carrier state in patient's relatives. DNA analysis proved fully informative in case of 17 families being a base to offer these families prenatal diagnosis of the disease in the I trimester of pregnancy, if such a family plans conception, and to accept this diagnostic technique.