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- Title
Should NASA Collect Astronauts' Genetic Information for Occupational Surveillance and Research?
- Authors
Reed, Rebekah Davis; Antonsen, Erik L.
- Abstract
Humans exploring beyond low-Earth orbit face environmental challenges coupled with isolation, remote operations, and extreme resource limitations in which personalized medicine, enabled by genetic research, might be necessary for mission success. With little opportunity to test personalized countermeasures broadly, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will likely need to rely instead on collection of significant amounts of genomic and environmental exposure data from individuals. This need appears at first to be in conflict with the statutes and regulations governing the collection and use of genetic data. In fact, under certain conditions, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008 allows for the use of genetic information in both occupational surveillance and research and in the development of countermeasures such as personalized pharmaceuticals.
- Subjects
GENEALOGY laws; GENETIC techniques; GOVERNMENT agencies; INDUSTRIAL hygiene; PUBLIC health surveillance; ENVIRONMENTAL exposure; CONTINUING education units; RESEARCH personnel; INDIVIDUALIZED medicine; LAW
- Publication
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2018, Vol 20, Issue 9, p849
- ISSN
2376-6980
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/amajethics.2018.849