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Genetic Discrimination and Health Insurance: An Urgent Need for Reform

20 Oct 1995

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The accelerated pace of gene discovery and molecular medicine portend a future in which information about a plethora of disease genes can be readily obtained. As at-risk populations are identified, research can be done to determine effective prevention and treatment strategies that will lower the personal, social and perhaps the financial costs of disease in the future. We all carry genes that predispose to...

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PMID: 7569991
DOI: 10.1126/science.270.5235.391

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