Pediatric epigenetic clocks have the potential to accurately assess biological age. However, possible applications in law enforcement and immigration raise ethical issues.
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When DNA databases and behavioural genetics combine, your family’s genes could play a role in criminal sentencing
A US judge has allowed police access to the major DNA database without users’ consent (including Australian users). It’s a timely reminder that we urgently need genetic privacy legislation.
When you share your genetic data – even with the NHS – you don’t know where it will end up, or how it will be used.
The rapid growth of genetic testing and data-gathering could revolutionize health and medicine if governments work to protect people against privacy and societal risks.
Massive online DNA databases can be used as a resource to discover viruses – even if the data had not been explicitly collected for that purpose.
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Academic Fellow, University of Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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Research fellow, Western Sydney University
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Junior research fellow in virus evolution, University of Oxford
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Ethical, Legal & Social Adviser - Public Health Genomics, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Economics, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate professor, Queen's University, Ontario
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PhD Candidate, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Center of Genomics and Policy, McGill University
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Canada Research Chair in Social Epigenetics and Professor, UBC Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society, California Polytechnic State University
