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How genetic censorship would harm everyone

Nature volume 452, page 282 (2008)Cite this article

Sir

In your Editorial 'Genetics benefits at risk' (Nature 451, 745–746; doi:10.1038/451745b 2008), you indicate that the entire scientific and medical community adamantly supports the US Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, because it would protect people from discrimination by health insurers or employers on the basis of genetic information. I, for one, do not support this bill.

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