ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2009
Genetic testing and sports medicine ethics.
Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
- Genetics and athletic performance: a systematic SWOT analysis of non-systematic reviews.Frontiers in genetics · 2023Pooled it
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- Genetics and the Elite Athlete: Our Understanding in 2020.Indian journal of orthopaedics · 2020Article
- Consent, ethics and genetic biobanks: the case of the Athlome project.BMC genomics · 2017Review
- Against Genetic Tests for Athletic Talent: The Primacy of the Phenotype.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2015Article
- Conventional and genetic talent identification in sports: will recent developments trace talent?Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2014Review
- From gene engineering to gene modulation and manipulation: can we prevent or detect gene doping in sports?Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2013Review
- Epigenetics in sports.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2013Review
- Bend it like Beckham! The Ethics of Genetically Testing Children for Athletic Potential.Sport, ethics and philosophy · 2013Article
- Sports medicine and ethics.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2013Article
- Potentially harmful advantage to athletes: a putative connection between UGT2B17 gene deletion polymorphism and renal disorders with prolonged use of anabolic androgenic steroids.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2010Article
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Sports medicine ethics is neither a well established branch of sports medicine nor of medical ethics. It is therefore important to raise to more general awareness some of the significant ethical implications of sports medicine practices. The field of genetics in sports is likewise in its infancy and raises significant ethical concerns. It is not yet clear how genetics will alter our understanding of human potential and performance in sports. While a number of professional medical bodies accept genetic interventions of a therapeutic nature, we argue that the use of genetic technologies to predict sports potential may well breach both the European bioethics convention and North American anti-discrimination legislation, which are designed to support important ethical ideals and the ongoing commitment of the physician to the welfare of their patient. We highlight further ethical problems associated with confidentiality and consent that may arise in genetic testing as opposed to more conventional methods of testing in sports medicine. We conclude that genetic testing in sport that is not strictly limited to the protection of the athlete against harm, should be viewed in a very sceptical light by sports medicine professionals.
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