HLTH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Breast Cancer, Epigenome, Penetrance
23 Mar 2018
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Eugenics - francis galton first to study contribution of heredity and environement on development of human traits - but before knowledge of mendel"s laws. Galton proposed that natural selection shoul be used to improve the human species - eugenics. Eugenicists contrasted pedigrees of families carrying superior traits - such as intelligence and musical ability with those cary dysgenic traits such as promiscuity and feeblemindedness. Eugneics exhibits were common at fairs and similar events, education, public policy. Reduced immigration from italy and russia, increased in france germany and great britain. 30 states in the us passed laws that required sterilization of genetically, intellectually and morally inferior individuals. American eugenicists inspired nazi"s, subsequent atrocities led to decline in us eugenics movement. 2001 - draft of human genome published. 2003 - full dna sequence of human genome published. 23 pairs in human genome, 46 chromosomes. Ethical, legal and social issues (elsi) program of nih. How should new genetic info be interpreted and used.
