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July 28 2008
 * What is The Future**

When the first disease gene for Huntington's was discovered,several patients who knew about their risk and committed suicide. Aravinda Chakravarti is a John Hopkins researcher who explained that many people want to know more about their hereditary information encoded in their DNA, only to find that once they have that information they can do little to prevent the disease it predicts. "How human beings will take a piece of information may be different before they know the test and after they know the test," said Aravinda Chakravarti.

Doctors and researchers gather at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, for the 49th annual Short Course on Medical and Experimental Mammalian Genetics, they discussed the latest advances in genetics, also an overview of changes showing how patients are treated in clinics by doctors.Having someone who can explain the results of these genetic tests is more important than ever these days.

This affects humans in botha positive and negative way because the more we know the more depressed we may get about our life because of our diseases caused by hereditary info.In a positive way because its always good to know more information.