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Currents in Contemporary Ethics: Meeting the Growing Demands of Genetic Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Amy L. McGuire  and
Richard A. Gibbs
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The promise of personalized medicine and the quest for a greater understanding of the genetic basis of disease has transformed the research enterprise. The Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., recently predicted “that comprehensive, genomics- based health care will become the norm, with individualized preventive medicine and early detection of illnesses.” This excitement about the potential scientific and clinical advances that may come from genomics- based research has led several NIH institutions to launch initiatives for genome-wide association studies (GWAS), calling on researchers and institutions to utilize the new DNA analysis technologies to study the genetic variation between individuals with a particular illness and healthy controls.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , Winter 2006 , pp. 809 - 812
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2006

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