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About Genomics
An interactive timeline listing key moments from the history of the project.
… **  James Watson was the first NHGRI Director and appears here as part of our history collection. Despite … and values of NHGRI. … Completed in April 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the ability to read nature's complete … the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis, Huntingdon's disease, neurofibromatosis and other genetic disorders. More …
Timeline
A timeline highlighting key moments in the development of eugenics, with a focus on the American eugenics movement.
… Eugenics is an immoral and pseudoscientific theory that claims it is possible to perfect people and groups through genetics and the scientific laws of inheritance. Eugenicists used an …
Policy Issues
The GINA is an important U.S. civil rights law that protects individuals from discrimination based on their genetic information.
… U.S. Congress in the 1990s at a time when genetic testing and genetics research was taking off at breakneck speed. GINA … afraid to take a genetic test that could help diagnose a disease, or they might refuse to participate in genetics … discriminatory use of genetic information.   2000 Human Genome Project releases a rough draft of the sequence of the …