PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, Carrier Testing, Newborn Screening
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Phlb09 lecture 15: chapter 9 genetic choices. Duty to warn? (offspring, likelihood of transmission) Testing to improve human genome? (whether or not this technology will impact next generations) Dna: chemical directing production of proteins for biological function. Genome: an organism"s entire set of dna. Gene: particular dna sequence containing production code: determines most characteristics, faulty code causes disease/disability. Probability (how certain can we be about our findings) Responses to knowledge: personal, familial, social, financial, personal knowledge. Tested for a suspected and incurable disease: confront challenge, live in hope (don"t want to be tested) Question changes with genetic heredity: obligation to know, duty to warn, conflict between autonomy and beneficence (e. g. the child wouldn"t have a) Physicians: conflict between confidentiality autonomy and warning (beneficence, autonomy) To gain knowledge about your life can interfere/change our life goals, etc. ) Genetic information non-discrimination act (us: depends fair treatment, employer/insurance companies cost-cutting (when an employee is ill, they are at a disadvantage)
