{"id":802,"date":"2007-03-27T14:48:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T13:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/03\/27\/collins-testimony-on-the-threat-of-genetic-discrimination\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T18:52:57","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T17:52:57","slug":"collins-testimony-on-the-threat-of-genetic-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/03\/collins-testimony-on-the-threat-of-genetic-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins: Testimony on the threat of genetic discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The testimony of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genome.gov\/Pages\/Newsroom\/Speeches&#038;Testimony\/CollinsGINATestimony030807.pdf\">Francis Collins<\/a> before the subcommittee on Health is now online<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA recent NIH study of families at risk for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer &#8230; revealed that the number concern expressed by participants regarding genetic testing was about losing health insurance, should the knowledge of their genetic test result be divulged or fall into the &#8220;wrong hands&#8221; &#8230; Unless Americans are convinced that their genetic information will not be used against them, the era of personlized medicine may never come to pass. The rest would be a continuation of the current one-size-fits-all medicine, ignoring the abundant scientific evidence that the genetic differences among people help explain why some of us benefit from a therapy while others do not.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The testimony of Francis Collins before the subcommittee on Health is now online A recent NIH study of families at risk for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer &#8230; revealed that the number concern expressed by participants regarding genetic testing was about losing health insurance, should the knowledge of their genetic test result be divulged or fall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/03\/collins-testimony-on-the-threat-of-genetic-discrimination\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Collins: Testimony on the threat of genetic discrimination<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,879,2945,4,26,880,878,231,876,877],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-children-future","tag-collins","tag-genetics-biology","tag-population-epidemiology","tag-genome","tag-insurance","tag-newsroom","tag-pharmacogenetics","tag-speeches","tag-testimony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}