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Policy Issues
The GINA is an important U.S. civil rights law that protects individuals from discrimination based on their genetic information.
… Congress in the 1990s at a time when genetic testing and genetics research was taking off at breakneck speed. GINA … diagnose a disease, or they might refuse to participate in genetics research. H.R. 2748 would prohibit insurance … protections against employment discrimination based on genetics. More on that later!   1996 Sen. Olympia Snowe …
Timeline
A timeline highlighting key moments in the development of eugenics, with a focus on the American eugenics movement.
… claims it is possible to perfect people and groups through genetics and the scientific laws of inheritance. Eugenicists … current and future discriminatory trends that misuse genetics and, through its association, genomics, this … current and future discriminatory trends that misuse genetics and, through its association, genomics, this …
About Genomics
An interactive timeline listing key moments from the history of the project.
National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research
The Director's Report Related documents contain links to materials supplemental to Dr. Eric Green's Director's Report presentation to the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research in September 2019.
… MB]   No. Relevant Documents 1 New ASHG-NHGRI Fellows Genetics and Public Policy Fellowship Genetics Education and … Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network 20 Clinical Genome (ClinGen) Resource ClinGen Consortium Website ClinGen Community Curation 21 Clinical Sequence Evidence-Generating Research (CSER) Program …
National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research
The Director's Report Related documents contain links to materials supplemental to Dr. Eric Green's Director's Report presentation to the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research in February 2020.
… Loss of David Hogness 13 2019 American Society of Human Genetics Awards 14 Schottenstein Prize & Oscar B. Hunter … Network Program Website eMERGE Consortium - Harmonizing Clinical Sequencing and Interpretation for the eMERGE III Network eMERGE Resources 30 Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) ClinGen Consortium Website …