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The Uncertain Future of Genetic Diagnosis of Human Behavior

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Sickle cell anemia was the first known human disease associated with a genetic polymorphism (an A?T single nucleotide polymorphism, or SNP), resulting in the substitution of a valine residue (encoded by a GTG codon) for a glutamic acid residue (encoded by a GAG codon) in the beta chain of human hemoglobin. The work, by Linus Pauling and colleagues at Cal Tech was published in the November 25, 1949 issue of the journal Science, about three and a half years before Watson and Crick deciphered the structure of DNA. Today, sixty years of molecular biology, including...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on June 19, 2009 (boomark / email).