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Alabama’s “Genetic Information Privacy Act”& the Ongoing Need for Personal...
Jennifer K. Wagner, J.D., Ph.D., is a solo-practicing attorney in State College, PA and a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare...
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On Genetic Rights and States: a Look at South Dakota and Around the U.S.
SD H.B. 1260, introduced in South Dakota on January 26, 2012, is an act that would govern the use of genetic information. By any standards – and especially by legislative standards – the two-page bill...
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Patenting and Personal Genomics: 23andMe Receives its First Patent, and...
Earlier this week 23andMe, the Silicon Valley-based personal genomics company, was awarded its first patent: US Patent Number 8,187,811, entitled “Polymorphisms associated with Parkinson’s disease”....
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DNA DTC: The Return of Direct to Consumer Whole Genome Sequencing
This morning, Gene By Gene, Ltd. – better known as the parent company of the popular genetic genealogy provider Family Tree DNA – formally announced a corporate reorganization that includes the debut...
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Approved North Carolina State Budget Includes Funds to Compensate...
Jennifer K. Wagner, J.D., Ph.D., is a solo-practicing attorney in State College, PA and a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare...
View ArticleGenomic Research Ethics: Special Rules for HeLa Cells
In her 2010 book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot told the story of Henrietta Lacks and the cell lines derived from her cervical tumor biospecimen (cell lines known to scientists...
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Revisions to the Ethical Standards for Research
The World Medical Association published revisions to the Declaration of Helsinki (DoH) in JAMA on October 19, 2013. As noted previously on the Genomics Law Report, the DoH was adopted in 1964 and is...
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ACMG Backs Down a Bit
A year ago, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) released its Recommendations for Reporting of Incidental Findings in Clinical Exome and Genome Sequencing. As I reported in a...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on the New Common Rule for Human Subjects Research
On January 18, 2017, in one of its last official acts, the outgoing Obama administration issued a final revised version of the Common Rule—the regulation that governs the treatment of human subjects in...
View ArticleA Constitutional Challenge to Alaska’s Genetic Privacy Statute
As part of its defense of a class action lawsuit that began in 2014, a genetic genealogy company (or DNA ancestry company as they are sometimes called) is challenging the constitutionality of the...
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