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How can you benefit from the human genome project?

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well this is as vague question as asking "how can you benefit from chemotheraphy" - if you get sick by the particular sickness, it can help you.
Human genome sequence knowledge is good for gene therapies and many other things. With this knowledge, it might be possible one day to treat e.g. cystic fibrosis and plenty of other illnesses.

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