Decoding the Book of life human beings have entered the post genome era

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In the past two years, the concept of "cloud storage" and "cloud computing" has been hotly fired. The mysterious "cloud" holds hundreds of millions of messages and data. But have you ever thought that one day people's genetic information may be stored in the cloud?

Internet company Google announced it will collaborate with Autism Research Institute Autism Speaks to speed up the disease by storing 10,000 of the complete genetic map of autistic children and their siblings and parents through cloud technology. It is reported that this will be the largest ever genome collection work.

Human studies of genes can be traced back to the 1865 by the Austrian scholar Mendel, who proposed the concept of genetic factors based on the pea hybridization test. Since then, in 1909, the Danish botanist and geneticist Johnson first proposed the term "gene" to express Mendel's concept of genetic factors. In the 1953, American Watson and British Crick experimented with a two-helix model of DNA molecules and successfully isolated the first gene in 1969.

The giant leap in human genome Research is 1990 years. This year, the Human Genome Project was officially launched to find out where all the human genes are located on the DNA molecule, to map out a complete human genome and decipher all human genetic information.

Since the implementation of the Human Genome Project, the process of deciphering life codes has been accelerating. On the June 26, 2000, 6 scientists from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Japan and China, who participated in the Human Genome Project, announced that the drafting of the human genome had been completed.

The completion of the sketch makes the secret of human growth, development, aging, and genetic lesions gradually surfacing. It has been found that genes determine a lot of things in a way that many humans do not know.

For example, in 2008, people discovered the "divorce gene" that could affect a person's marital life. By investigating more than 1800 women and their partners ' DNA, the Stockholm Rolinska Medical school's biology team found that women with the "divorce gene" in their bodies were 50% less likely to maintain a harmonious and stable marriage than women who did not carry the gene. At the same time, scientists have found a "divorce gene" in men, a gene that affects the brain, increases the tendency of men to cheat on their wives, and thus greatly increases the risk of a couple marriage.

Not only that, but genes can also affect a person's stature. In 2003, Philip Frost, of Imperial College London, and his colleagues analyzed DNA profiles and other data from more than 95,000 people, and found that one person in every 2000 person carries a "thin gene". Women with this "thin gene" were 5 times times more likely to be underweight than normal men, compared with 23 times times the number in males. On the other hand, scientists have discovered 6 new genes that could lead to obesity. But thankfully, research has shown that a lot of exercise can counteract the role of obese genes.

At present, humans have entered the post genome era, the protein Genome Project and the "Brain Project" research has been in 2003 and 2013 on the agenda. Humanity is sparing no effort to decipher this heavy book of life.