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Timeline of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)

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 …

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The Human Genome Project is simply a bad idea

The Human Genome Project changed traditional understandings of how and why scientific research is conducted. It was, however, not without its detractors. Early in 1990, there was an effort to stop funding for the nascent Human Genome Project, in the form of a letter writing campaign.

… endless lines of letters with “no interesting biological information.” According to the Coleman, the project “wouldn’t … and that are being actively investigated today. For more information on what we now refer to as “non-coding DNA,” … (as outlined in the Bermuda Principles ) of the genomic information generated. This kind of policy was made possible …

About Genomics

Human Genome Project Timeline

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 …

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Gene Sweepstakes (GeneSweep)

The Gene Sweepstakes — or GeneSweep as it became popularly known — was a three-year-long, sweepstakes-style contest organized by British bioinformatician Ewan Birney, Ph.D., of the European Bioinformatics Institute. Scientists participated in the contest by betting on the total number of protein-coding genes that would be identified in the human genome sequence generated by the Human Genome Project.

… website thus became a key place to get the most up-to-date information about the collection of identified human genomes. …