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Is legislation to prevent genetic discrimination necessary in Japan? An overview of the current policies and public attitudes
8 Jun 2023
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Genetic discrimination (GD) has not been discussed in East Asia as extensively as in Europe and North America. Influenced by UNESCO's universal declaration in 1997, the Japanese government took a stringent approach toward GD by releasing the Basic Principles on Human Genome Research in 2000. However, Japanese society has mostly been ignoring the prevention of GD for decades, and the principle of prohibiting GD...
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