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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 …
Tribute
A candid and kind genomics pioneer leaves a deep impact on NHGRI and the genomics community.
… scientific contributions at the intersection of genome technology development, studies of human genomic variation, … expertise across multiple domains of genome science and technology.” Below are some of those memories and materials … issues concerning the quality of genetic variation information contained within databases at the time. On …
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 …