The search for disease susceptibility genes. Medical and ethical problems of predictive medicine.

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Thanks to major progress in genetics, a great number of disease susceptibility genes have been characterized. However, the concept of genetic defect is challenged by the elusive boundary between genetic diseases and allelic polymorphism which represents a major adaptative response to the diversity of environmental pressures. The detection of disease susceptibility alleles should be performed only if appropriate...

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