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This project will analyze how US white nationalists are appropriating, adapting, politically mobilizing and changing themselves in response to contemporary genomics research. White nationalists have…

A major challenge for precision medicine research is including historically under-represented groups in numbers sufficient to ensure statistically valid inferences of the influence of relevant risk…

Patient engagement is critical for implementation of the genomic component of precision medicine--with care taken to include the perspectives and needs of patients. Yet many patients may experience…

Genetic testing has a multigenerational impact, as actionable pathogenic variants can identify multiple family members at risk. Currently in the United States, a person at actionable risk through…

From the passage of the country's first sterilization law in Indiana in 1907 until the 1960s approximately 60,000 people were sterilized based on eugenic criteria that sought to regulate the…

As genomic sequence data are being produced faster and at lower cost, the most significant challenge in clinical genetic testing today is variant classification. Currently, there are marked…

Candidate: Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBE, is an attorney and medical ethicist focused on the governance of secondary research use of human specimens and genetic data. Her long-term career goal is to…

Stephanie Kraft, JD, is an Acting Instructor in the Division of Bioethics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine. She has a background in law and economics and has…

The application of new computerized methods of data analysis to vast collections of medical, biological, and other data is emerging as a central feature of a broad vision of precision medicine (PM)…

A large and highly heterogeneous group of individuals conducts genetic and genomic research outside of traditional corporate and academic settings. They can be an important source of innovation, but…