BIOL 3134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, Human Genome Project, Myriad Genetics
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Lecture 20 notes: ethical, legal, and social issues, the impact of the human genome project on public policy, educate society about the opportunities and challenges of the new genetics, prevents misuse of information and genotypic discrimination. Legal issue: association for molecular pathology vs myriad genetics inc, myriad genetics isolated brca1 and brca2 genes, myriad patented claims directed to, variant dnas, diagnostic methods, methods for screening potential treatments, myriad aggressively and successfully enforced its patients. It must be useful as a tool for research or as a novel or improved product, such as a diagnostic test or drug: a transgenic organism that is new, useful, non-obvious to experts is patentable. Social issue genetic privacy: our genomes can vary in more ways than are people in the world, data availability, stigmatization and discrimination, reproductive privacy, proper understandings of their genetic risks (carrier status, false alarms.
