ArticleAmerican journal of human genetics1994
The Human Genome Project and eugenic concerns.
Article in American journal of human genetics, 1994. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Human pangenome: far-reaching implications in precision medicine.Frontiers of medicine · 2024Article
- The New Precision Stewards?Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Preventing discrimination based on psychiatric risk biomarkers.American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics · 2019Review
- The power of heredity and the relevance of eugenic history.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2018Article
- From genes to public health: the applications of genetic technology in disease prevention. Genetics Working Group.American journal of public health · 1996Review
- Race hygiene in Nazi Germany.American journal of human genetics · 1995Article
- Epidemiological evaluation of the use of genetics to improve the predictive value of disease risk factors.American journal of human genetics · 1995Article
- The Evolving Genome Project: current and future impact.American journal of human genetics · 1994Review
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Abstract
The U.S. Human Genome project is the largest scientific project funded by the federal government since the Apollo Moon Project. The overall effect from this project should be of great benefit to humankind because it will provide a better understanding both of single gene defects and multifactorial or familial diseases such as diabetes, arteriosclerosis, and cancer. At first this will lead to more exact ways of screening and diagnosing genetic disease, and later it will lead, in many if not most instances, to specific genetic cures. However, in the past, in both the U.S. and German eugenic movements genetic information has been misused. Hopefully, by remembering and understanding the past injustices and inhumanity of negative eugenics, further misuse of scientific information can be avoided.
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