Ethical Issues in Genetic Testing

Since genetic testing techniques are available, they never stopped being improved over the years. Theses techniques bring a greatest knowledge of the human genome. Thus, geneticists are now capable of diagnosis of genetic conditions, identification of at-risk patients for cancer.... Although genetic testing has been a major revolution in the practice of medicine, it goes without saying that it has the potential to lead to ethical dilemmas. One way to explain some of them is to focus on a few techniques –genome sequencing, prenatal diagnosis, preimplantation diagnosis, and paternity testing— to then discuss some of the ethical questions they address.