GENETIC SCREENING 
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Do We Really Want This?
Little People of America Inc. Comes to Terms with Genetic Testing
The gene responsible for achondroplasia was identified in 1994. In 1995, Ruth Ricker, a former president of LPA, proposed this project to study the ethical and social implications of genetic screening for the dwarf and short stature community. Read her proposal and a follow-up position statement on genetic screening issued by LPA in 1996.
Reproductive Genetic Testing: What America Thinks
This report presents the first look at the largest-ever series of
social science research studies to learn what Americans know, think and
feel about the use and regulation of reproductive genetic testing — carrier testing, prenatal genetic diagnosis and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). These studies were conducted by the Genetics and Public Policy Center between October 2002 and August 2004, include 21 focus groups, 62 in-depth interviews, two surveys with a combined sample size of over 6000 people, and both in-person and online Genetic Town Halls.
National Human Genome Research Institute
Geneticists at the National Institute of Health (NIH) are working on cutting edge research. The National Human Genome Research Institute began as the National Center for Human Genome Research (NCHGR), which was established in 1989 to carry out the role of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the International Human Genome Project (HGP).
BBC: Future Human — The Future of Human Reproduction
News articles about cloning and designer children lead us to wonder how
couples of the future will make babies. Will they rely on sex as our
parents and grandparents did, or will some suite of science-fiction
technologies supplant what we think of as “natural” human reproduction, largely moving it out of the bedroom and into the laboratory?
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