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Potentialities of the human genome project

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Describe two positive potentialities of the human genome project, and one negative possibility.

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According to this website http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/home.shtml the goal of the project is to identify the 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA.

There are many positive aspects:
- if people have genetic diseases, knowing what genes ...

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