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Policy Issues
Genetic information is used by law enforcement to investigate criminal acts and exonerate those who have been convicted of crimes they did not commit.
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NHGRI hosted the virtual Advanced Genomic Technology Development Meeting on May 25-27, 2021.
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NHGRI hosted the virtual Advanced Genomic Technology Development Meeting on May 27-29, 2020.
Policy Issues
There are laws and policies that serve to protect the privacy of individuals' genomic information.
Policy Issues
In 2008, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act was passed into law, prohibiting discrimination by employers and health insurers.
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The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) hosted the Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Program (KOMP2) and International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC)'s annual meeting at the Rockville Hilton in Rockville, Maryland, on November 19, 2019.
Policy Issues
The 9 steps a bill can go through before becoming a law, using the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2003 as an example.
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On March 1, 2018, over 65 basic research, clinical, and bioinformatic scientists in the genomics community convened for a four-hour web meeting on NHGRI-funded components of the Genome Reference Consortium (GRC).
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The Inter-Society Coordinating Committee for Practitioner Education in Genomics (ISCC-PEG) held its ninth in-person meeting on February 25, 2020, in Bethesda, Maryland.
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The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) hosted the Advanced Genomic Technology Development Meeting at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 29 - 31, 2019.