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Published Online: Nov 30, 2000
ABSTRACT
The development of molecular genetics has provided tools not only for the diagnosis of genetic diseases and disease dispositions in affected individuals, but also for the detection of healthy carriers of recessive hereditary traits.
The growth in DNA data banks threatens individual privacy, as competing private medical and life insurance companies already do. With a growing number of diseases we can expect more cases of exclusion unless anti-discrimination laws for insurance companies are introduced. Social policy must decide how to preserve privacy and prevent discrimination by employers and insurance companies.
A geneticist has a very responsible position in processes and sequences of genetics developments, therefore he must warn against inappropriate use by uninformed public.