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Do You Hear What I Hear?: The Right Of Prospective Parents To Use Pgd To Intentionally Implant An Embryo Containing The Gene For Deafness, Sarah Aviles Dec 2012

Do You Hear What I Hear?: The Right Of Prospective Parents To Use Pgd To Intentionally Implant An Embryo Containing The Gene For Deafness, Sarah Aviles

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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Who's To Blame: How Genetic Information Will Lead To More Accurate Decisions In Toxic Tort Litigation, Allison Hite Jul 2012

Who's To Blame: How Genetic Information Will Lead To More Accurate Decisions In Toxic Tort Litigation, Allison Hite

South Carolina Law Review

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Will Gene Patents Derail The Next-Generation Of Genetic Technologies?: A Reassessment Of The Evidence Suggests Not, Christopher M. Holman Mar 2012

Will Gene Patents Derail The Next-Generation Of Genetic Technologies?: A Reassessment Of The Evidence Suggests Not, Christopher M. Holman

UMKC Law Review

Judge Bryson recently asserted in Association for Molecular Pathology v. US Patent and Trademark Office (dissenting-in-part) that human gene patents "present a significant obstacle to the next generation of innovation in genetic medicine — multiplex tests and whole-genome sequencing." His concern over the impact of gene patents on genetic testing, which coincides with his position that certain gene patents should be declared patent ineligible, reflects a widely held misperception that 20% of human genes are patented in a manner that would necessarily result in infringement by whole genome sequencing and other forms of genetic testing. In fact, the myth that …