- More than 2 years ago
From San Diego, at a meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics
The gold rush of human genetics is well under way. Now that tools for profiling genome activity are widely available, scientists have found more than 80 disease-related variations in human DNA, many of them in the past year.
As a result, ethical arguments about how to handle people’s genetic information—and related disease-risk information—are no longer academic.