This paper discusses the changing relationship between population genetics, family genealogy and identity. It reports on empirical research with participants in a genetic study who anticipated that personal feedback on the analysis of their donated samples would elucidate aspects of their own family genealogies. The paper also documents how geneticists, building on the practices of offering per...

Scientific information emerging from human genome research has significant implications for the practice of professional nursing. Professional nurses assist individuals in making decisions about DNA studies, ensure that consent is informed before genetic testing, and help clients cope with genetic information after test results are known. Nurses with advanced education in genetics identify and ...

Autonomy takes many shapes. The concept of "graduated autonomy" is conceived as comprising several unique features: (1) it is incremental, (2) it is proportional, and (3) it is related to the telos of the life stage during which it occurs. This paper focuses on graduated autonomy in the context of genetic testing during adolescence. Questions can be raised about other life stages as well, and s...

This is an overview of the issue of genetic testing from a government relations perspective, and how it may be, or more likely is, already affecting your job. Some readers are intimately involved with this issue, and others may be less familiar with the political ramifications of advances in the genetic sciences on the insurance industry. For those of you already following this issue, I hope to...

The peer commentaries accompanying our article on military genomics in the December 2014 issue of this journal,1 while generally endorsing our approach, raise important points to which we would like to respond. We agreewith Evans andMoreno,2 Pence,3 andRoberts4 on the need to avoid overstating the current usefulness of genomic science to the military. However, there are well-accepted, clinicall...