Should genetic testing be mandatory?
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No. Readers Digest or National Geographic, not sure which one has asked for volunteers to send in swab for genetic mapping. Many people have responded. It is only a matter of time now as it is before we all know where in the world we originated from. Discrimination occurs all too frequently for other reasons, why add one more? Anyway environment has just as much to due with genes mutating and causing cancer. Look at articles on "Chernobyl" 10 years after.
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Ans. C\nWhat human would subject themself to this? Besides, a human probably couldn't produce enough offspring in a lifetime to make the test reliable.
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Not necessarily. It could be a mutated gene, a side effect of another health issue, or it could be a recessive gene thus making it in fact genetic.
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Suggest that there should be a test for competency.
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well I thought I had a daughter for 15 years- then it was necessary for me to take a dna test- proving she wasnt mine.  I am lucky in the way that I never knew her, but I looked for her the whole time.  The reason I had to take the DNA test was because when I found her, I wanted to help her out of a bad situation and have her live with me- finding out she wasnt mine after all opportunities I passed up so that she could find me if she ever looked for me- was devistating.  I think the least her mom could do is pay me back for the 700 dollar test!\n\nThis just confims my thoughts that a man should have more peternal rights.  They should be able to decide just as much as the mother about having children, they should get just as much help from the courts in matters as well.
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no.everyone has the rit to get admitted.first come first served basis should do.no testing with parent knowledge necessary.
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Yes, junior high school as an optional class and high school mandatory.  I also believe that people should be licensed to be parents.  There are too many rules in America, but I could live with adding this one.  If someone can't pass a parenting class, why should they be allowed to have children?  I know, it's too much trouble, but what an idea!  Only qualified parents!  Maybe there were be less neglected and abused kids.
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I personally think that is a wonderful idea. I am so sick of people spreading disease and claiming they didn't know when all you have to do is take a five minute test and give your permission. It really pisses me off.\n\nAs for people being concerned that they will not be cared for if they should test positive, I work with AIDS patients and most of them have advanced disease and are unable to work and all of the meds are paid for by you and me and our wonderful government. Fret no more. Just make sure they get tested so they will quit spreading this wretched disease.
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Whaaaaaa ?? I think people should have a license to breed; perhaps they'd be less indiscriminate. Love is not, however, something that can necessarily be controlled or mandated.
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We definitely need screening for disease.  Resistant TB is now here, we had eradicated it in this country, and legal immigrants are screened.  Ditto polio, and to at least one account, leprosy.\n\nI'm going to include a link to something I got off of a question today.  The rhetoric is strong, but the citations and links are there to the important stuff, so I still think it has value.  It discusses health issues in illegal immigration.\n\nhttp://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeleine3.htm
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Please follow the links\nhttp://www.genetic-testing.biz\nhttp://www.genetic.cc\nhttp://www.genome-research.org
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i would suggest consulting with a genetic counselor to discuss your particular situation. see info below...
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No, definately not. Aside from the potential dangers of unforseen genetic flaws, it could cause people in elite positions (e.g. with lots of money) to manipulate their offspring to be ahead of everyone else.\n\nThe impact on this would be very destructive indeed when insurance companies and employees would be only accepting people with a certain genetic makeup.\n\nSociety would also be outcasting people who have not had this "special" treatment.\n\nThere would also be the case where it is a matter of opinion what would be a better or worse characteristic. For example, blue eyes, blond hair, fair skin (sound familiar? Nazi Germany perhaps?). This would certainly induce favourtism (hence racism). Diversity and culture would be destroyed and we might all end up being the same. Although some members of nationalist political parties might appreciate it.\n\nRead Brave New World by Aldous Huxley or watch the film Gattaca to see the potential dangers.
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I would recommend an amnio to a pregnant woman if she and her husband were reasonably concerned about potential problems that could be detected by this test.  \n\nReasonable concern regarding the presence of genetic disorders could arise out of family history, previous reproductive history, or the presence of known risk factors for genetic disorders, such as maternal age.
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Personally I feel that testing for STD's should be mandatory for everyone every year.  Given the fact that over a million people in the United States have HIV, I think it is a reasonable solution to the epidemic.  I also feel that someone tested as HIV positive should be required by law to have a small tattoo put on them marking them as infected.  I know many people will disagree with this citing how the Nazis numbered concentration camp victims, but I do not think this is parallel to it at all.  An infected person is is a danger to EVERYONE they are sexually active with, and their partners have a right to know.  There are about a half a million people walking around right now that are infected and don't even know it.  Obviously the measures we have taken so far have not stopped the spread of HIV, so further ones are needed.  One of the easiest ways to stop a disease from spreading is to stop its transmission vector.  \nConsider the massive response that the United States had last year to the West Nile virus.  How much effort went into killing off the mosquitoes that were giving it to humans?  Now consider how many people died from West Nile compared to AIDS deaths.  Why have we not done more to stop AIDS?
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It is the most common genetic disease among people with European ancestry. Approximately one in every 25 people of European descent is a carrier of one of the cystic fibrosis mutations, having one normal gene and one CF gene.Whereas, the carrier rate is 1 in 17,000 live births of African Americans, and 1 in 90,000 live births of the Asian population of Hawaii.[2]\n\nSince cystic fibrosis is recessive, both copies of the gene have to be CF genes to cause the symptoms that occur in about 1 in every 2500 children. The high incidence of this lethal gene can be explained by the fact that CF carriers, who don't show any symptoms, enjoy some protection against cholera, since the extreme water loss in the intestines is prevented. More recently, evidence suggests CF genes could give protection against typhoid fever. People from areas where cholera and typhoid fever are not problems show a much lower incidence of CF. Genetic counseling and genetic testing is recommended for families who may be carriers of cystic fibrosis.\n\nAs CF is caused by a pair of recessive gene mutations, couples with the same CF mutation will have a one in four chance that their offspring is afflicted with CF. Prenatal and preconceptional screening will identify parents at risk to have offspring with CF. Different population groups have a different prevalence of CF, thus such screening tests will be most useful in populations with a high prevalence. According to ACOG, the risk of being a carrier for an abnormal gene sequence related to CF is 1/24 for Ashkenazi Jews, 1/25 for non-Hispanic Caucasians, 1/46 for Hispanic Americans, 1/ 65 for African Americans, and 1/94 for Asian Americans. Typically one partner is screened, and if found positive the other partner undergoes the test, but in situations of time constraints, i.e. during prenatal testing, both partners may undergo testing. Genetic testing examines a panel of the most common forms of gene mutations that can lead to CF, typically 23 mutations are checked. However as over 1,300 mutations are linked to CF, there remains a residual risk even in the presence of negative testing. Couples who undergo preconceptional testing can choose among several reproductive options, including PGD prior to establishing a pregnancy, prenatal fetal testing by chorionic villus sampling or amniocentesis, or the use of alternative gametes (third party reproduction).\n\nCystic fibrosis was first described as a disease in the late 1930s by Dorothy Hansine Andersen.In 1988, the first mutation for CF, ΔF508, was discovered by Francis Collins, Lap-Chee Tsui and John R. Riordan on the seventh chromosome of the human genome. Research has subsequently found over 1000 different mutations that may cause CF, however ΔF508 accounts for approximately 70% of CF patients in Europe (this percentage varies regionally). Lap-Chee Tsui led a team of researchers at the Genomic Biology Program of the Research Institute, at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto to discover the gene responsible for CF in 1989.
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That is one of the big debates in the area.   Seems to me that the human race needs to develop immunities on its own...we cant tamper with that.   People are alread thinking about being able to choose their child gender, hight, weight, strength, intelligence, hair and eye color.   I don't want that...I dont' see how any reasonable person could.\n\nI don't want to take the risk that changing the genetic structure caoul have catastrphic results later on, like the need of an ontibody that doesn't exist becase the disease has been mutated by being inside of a genetically modified person.   When we are bor we already have enough things that are forced upon us...we don't need more....