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  • Grant Abstract

    Lay Understanding of Race, Addiction and Genetics

    Research is currently underway that seeks to deepen our understanding of the role of genetic factors in substance dependence and response to treatment. In order for the potential benefits of emerging…
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    A Model Informed Consent Process for BRCA1 Testing

    This study will develop, implement and evaluate a model informed consent (IC) process for genetic testing for breast cancer that integrates the perceptions of consumers and providers. The model IC…
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    Views of Privacy of Genetic Information

    The increasing availability of genetic information on individuals raises a series of critical questions concerning privacy and confidentiality that have not been fully explored. The rise of computers…
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    DNA Fingerprinting and Civil Liberties

    The ethical, legal, and social issues arising from the use of DNA forensics have not been fully explored. This project aims to investigate the various positions on new and controversial issues…
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    Ethical and Legal Issues in the Diffusion of Genetic Tests (II)

    This project will study factors influencing physician's adoption of new genetic tests and their attitudes towards how tests should be provided. It will also begin to explore consumer attitudes.…
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    Data Sharing and Data Withholding in Genetics

    The overall purpose of this grant is to explore the nature, extent and consequences of data-sharing and data- withholding in academic genetics and the other life sciences. The specific aims are: (1)…
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    Ethical Decision Making for Newborn Genetic Screening

    New screening technologies and new knowledge about the origin and treatment of genetic conditions are changing the genetic screening environment. This project will focus on the impact of these…
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    Genetic Ancestry Inference: Developing Best-Practice Guidelines

    The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) requests financial support to partially defray speaker and participant travel expenses for an "Ancestry Inference Roundtable" to be held in May…
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    A Framework for Disability Perspectives on HGP

    The Human Genome Project (HGP) is a source of hope and a cause for concern for people with disabilities and their families. Few researchers have solicited the input of the disability community about…
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    Oral History of Human Genetics: The Intelligent Archive

    We propose to create a historical resource that will allow researchers now and in the future to gain new insights into the history of human genetics as it developed in the second half of the…