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Genetics Perspective on Policy Seminar - The Molecular Full Monty: Personal Genomes, Personal Health

Participants discussed the growth in whole-genome tests, the extent to which consumers understand their results and what they do with them, and the power of the tests to predict an individual's risk of disease.

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Genes and Health

Made as part of the Center's Public Consultation on Genetics, Environment, and Health, this video gives an overview of the role of genes in shaping health.

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Genes and Environment

Made as part of the Center's Public Consultation on Genetics, Environment, and Health, this video gives an overview of the interaction of genes with environmental factors, and the impact of these interactions on health.

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The Proposed Study

Made as part of the Center's Public Consultation on Genetics, Environment, and Health, this video gives an overview of the proposed large-cohort study on genes and the environment.

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Genetics Perspective on Policy Seminar - DNA and Depression: Tests, Trust, and Treatment

Genetic research may hold great promise for better treating mental illness, but psychiatrists should hold off on replacing their couches with gene-sequencing machines for now, according to panel members at the Center's December 17 GenePOPS.

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Genetics Perspectives on Policy Seminar - A Perfect Match? DNA in Law Enforcement

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Genetics Perspectives on Policy Seminar - Who Owns Your Genes? Intellectual Property and the Human Genome

Panelists with contrasting views on whether human genes should be patented faced off at the National Press Club.

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Genetics Perspectives on Policy Seminar - Sequencing Human History

The Center hosted a seminar in March on what DNA can -- and cannot -- reveal about human history and identity.

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Genetics Perspectives on Policy Seminar - Do These Genes Make Me Look Fat?

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News conference calling on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to beef up regulation of genetic tests

The Genetics and Public Policy Center, Genetic Alliance, and Public Citizen held a joint news conference to call on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide better oversight of genetic testing.

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National Genetic Policy Summit

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Genetics Perspectives on Policy Seminar - Pharmacogenetics: Is This Drug for You?

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Genetics Perspectives on Policy Seminar - Genes in Uniform: Don't Test, Don't Tell

The military, however, routinely considers genetic information from service members -- to make assignments, terminate or promote, and decide health care benefits.

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Genetics Perspectives on Policy Seminar - Values in Conflict: Embryos, Ethics and the Public

Parkinson's Disease. Cancer. Spinal cord injury. Although these conditions are strikingly different, some scientists believe that human embryonic stem cells could form the basis for treating all of them.

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Values in Conflict: Public Attitudes on Stem Cell Research

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Genetics Perspectives on Policy Seminar - Gene Doping: Human Genetic Technologies and the Future of Sports

Today, from Major League baseball diamonds to Olympic swimming pools, ugly accusations of illegal steroid use abound. Will tomorrow's sports pages be filled with similar stories about athletes using genetic enhancements that promise a stronger pitch

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Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing: Medicine and the Marketplace

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Custom Kids? Genetic Testing of Embryos

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Chosen Children: Issues in Reproductive Testing

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