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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2008;299(21):2493.

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In a move to protect individuals from health insurance or employment discrimination based on their genetic information, both the House and Senate have overwhelmingly passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). The protections provided by the act are meant to encourage US individuals to obtain genetic testing as part of their medical care without fear of discrimination.

The progress of GINA's passage can be tracked at http://www.genome.gov/24519851.

Congress has passed legislation that bans the use of genetic information in decisions about a person's health insurance or employment.

At press time, President Bush, who was among those who urged Congress to pass such legislation, was expected to sign the bill into law. "We want medical research to go forward without an individual fearing of personal discrimination," Bush said during a roundtable discussion at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) last year.

SUPPORT FOR GINA

Legislation to protect against genetic discrimination . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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