2011 National DNA Day Online Chatroom Transcript

This is just one question from an archive of the National DNA Day Moderated Chat held in April 2011. The NHGRI Director and many genomics experts from across NHGRI took questions from students, teachers and the general public on topics ranging from basic genomic research, to the genetic basis of disease, to ethical questions about genetic privacy.

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What will come of DNA in the future?      Bruce Korf, M.D., Ph.D.: I am a medical geneticist and serve as chair of the Department of Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. My major area of focus is diagnosis and treatment of neurogenetic disorders, especially neurofibromatosis. Iým also involved in initiatives to integrate genetics and genomics into medicine. If you are asking about where research on DNA is going, no one knows for sure, but we are hopeful that we will be able to understand in great detail how genetic information that is encoded in DNA is processed and regulated to result in both normal and abnormal development. We expect that DNA-based approaches will contribute in a major way to improvement of the quality of health care in the coming years. Palms Middle School in CA (7th grade student)

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