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Current Legal Challenges to Abortion: Implications for Prenatal Genetics
The ability to examine the health of the fetus has expanded dramatically in the last half century. Most of the time, the news is reassuring. However, prenatal screening and diagnosis detect genetic…- abortion
- prenatal genetics
- Down Syndrome
- Prenatal Diagnosis
- Prenatal screening
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How Literature and Film Shape and Reflect Public Attitudes toward Genetics
Powerful works of art enrich our understanding of the issues that matter most in our lives—not least in controversial areas of the biosciences. By exploring the dense cultural networks that shape…- Narratives
- Film
- Literature
- public attitudes
- race and genetics
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Expanded Carrier Screening (ECS): Clinical and Ethical Considerations for Genetic Counseling
Targeted carrier screening began over 50 years ago with a focus on populations at increased risk for specific genetic conditions based on patient-reported racial, ethnic, or ancestral background. As…- expanded carrier screening
- genetic counseling
- genetic technologies
- carrier screening
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Realizing the Self-Determination Goals of Indigenous People in Genetics Research
Self-determination and tribal sovereignty are core concepts in the lives and histories of Indigenous Peoples. Within the United States, the peoples of the American Indian and Alaska Native tribes are…- Indigenous Peoples
- Genetics Research
- data sovereignty
- Indigenous Communities
- Community Engagement
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The Disability Rights Critique of Technologies that Eliminate Human Genetic Variation
The development and use of an expanding range of medical technologies that yield genetic information about embryos and fetuses has raised ethical questions about whether and how this increasingly… -
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Social Norms in Selective Reproduction: Implications for the Wide Offer of Genetic Screening Technologies
The ability to offer genetic information to inform reproductive decisions, for example through reproductive genetic carrier screening, expanded prenatal testing, or preimplantation embryo screening,…- genetic screening
- Reproduction
- genetic technologies
- disability
- prenatal testing
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Privacy, Security, and Nondiscrimination Best Practices for Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Genetic Testing Companies
The completion of the Human Genome Project opened new doors for business enterprise. One such activity is direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing, or genetic testing offered on a service-driven…- data privacy
- direct-to-consumer genetic testing
- GINA
- genetic discrimination
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Advancing Ethical Engagement and Benefit Sharing Within International Collaborative Genomic Research Partnerships in Africa
Due to advances in genomic sequencing and reduced costs, the development of statistical techniques and technologies for analysis of large datasets, and a scientific interest in population-specific…- ethical engagement
- benefit sharing
- Africa
- Collaborations
- genomic research
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How Do We Diversify Human Genomics Research?
The lack of diversity in human genomics research and reference datasets is a known problem, with real-life consequences, but the path forward remains elusive. Solutions to the problem of sampling…- genetic diversity
- Admixture
- anti-racism
- FAIR data principles
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Biocolonialism and Other “Western”-Centered Bioethical Failures Onto Indigenous Peoples
There are complex, historical reasons why global Indigenous peoples have largely not engaged in genetics and genomics research. For example, if we look to the 1990s and early 2000s, global Indigenous…- Indigenous
- genetic data
- genetic ancestry
- decolonization
- Indigenous data