Maybe not much sleep for me tonight. I was e-mailed the first result of some new work we began on a gene residing on chromosome 1 using a cohort based in Europe as source material. The gene is of course a human protein coding gene and we have undertaken an effort to enumerate specific alleles of this gene as well as the number of copies present on chromosome 1 within the cohort European sampling.
Now keep in mind what typically happens in both academic and government research. No one wants to identify the source of plasmid DNA used in research. In fact, normalized libraries are produced and multiple libraries may be combined upon initiation of the research effort.
As a real world example, equal amounts of plasmid DNA from five normalized libraries were mixed, and ss circles were made in vitro for work conducted for the UniGene database sponsored by NIH’s National Center for Biotechnology information related to NBPF15. This work must of course support the politically correct belief that there is no such thing as race.
Our is specifically not doing this. We do not ‘homogenize’ cDNA to eradicate real biological differences that may lead to treatments an cures of disease in real people. In addition, we do not hide avenues that may in some cases lead to genetic engineering techniques that result in specific benefit to specific population groups.
One of the points of focus of our research is the control and progression of oncogenesis, particularly in young children. The effort will not be limited to this hoped research result however, but will broaden as the research progresses.
Other work at the moment is focused on chromosome 2.
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