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- Title
Disability and genetics in the era of genomic medicine.
- Authors
Scully, Jackie Leach
- Abstract
Genomic medicine offers a growing number of methods to diagnose, cure or prevent disability. Although many disabled people welcome these advances, others have reservations about the impact of genetic knowledge on disabled people's lives, arguing that genetic science might exacerbate the deep ambivalence that society as a whole has towards physical difference and anomaly. It is also possible, however, that being able to specify the genetic bases of disability, and distinguish them from other causative factors, will contribute to a fuller understanding of disability and a better response to disabled people.
- Publication
Nature reviews. Genetics, 2008, Vol 9, Issue 10, p797
- ISSN
1471-0064
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrg2453