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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.
… The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, commonly known as GINA, is … individuals from discrimination based on their genetic information. It was first introduced into the U.S. Congress … prohibits health insurers from using someone's genetic information to refuse insurance or charge higher prices, and …
Event
NHGRI and George Mason University's Institute for Digital InnovAtion co-host the Computational Genomics Conference, on Wednesday, April 28, 2021.
Event
NHGRI hosts a virtual Q&A with science journalist Angela Saini, author of “Superior: The Return of Race Science” on Thursday, July 23, 2020.
… the Year  (NPR's  Science Friday ), and Best Science and Technology Books from 2019 ( Library Journal ).  … Webcast … …
Community Outreach
NHGRI is proud to help support the PBS documentary, “Ken Burns presents The Gene: An Intimate History,” based on the book by Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D.
About Genomics
An interactive timeline listing key moments from the history of the project.
… on Life Sciences and the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment recommend a concerted genome research … Sequencing. They decide that all human genomic sequence information should be made freely available and placed in the … of the human genome in the journal Nature. A wealth of information is obtained from the initial analysis of the …