Genetic screening mandatory

Genetic screening had reached a new stage in late 1960 when public health officials initiated voluntary screening of adults to detect heterozygous carriers of specific recessive traits, such as Tay-Sachs, another degenerative disease. Subsequently, several states passed laws to establish mandatory programs to screen for carriers of sickle-cell anemia. 

The question of whether genetic screening should be voluntary or mandatory is controversial. So is the goal of the screening— whether to detect afflicted individuals or carriers. Screening can be performed at various life stages, such as prenatal, neonatal, newborn, or premarital. 

Will mandatory genetic screening programs lead to laws that govern a person s reproductive behavior ... 

Whose rights could be violated if genetic screening were mandatory ... 

IT] Do you think genetic screening of newborns should be mandatory or voluntary [ 2] Whether screening is mandatory or voluntary, who should have access to information about a person s genetic makeup The tested individual Parents School Governments Insurance companies Employers ... 

National and international cooperative efforts for sharing data are mandatory to achieve the large sample sizes required and allow metaanalyses of data (120,121), which can be very powerful. Study of genetic effects common to multiple diseases will also increasingly be of considerable interest (121,122). The most efficient scheme for completing a pooled association screen is for a large collaborative study of several diseases with division of microsatellites among laboratories (65). 

---