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Ten Fingers, Ten Toes: Newborn Screening For Untreatable Disorders, Ellen Wright Clayton
Ten Fingers, Ten Toes: Newborn Screening For Untreatable Disorders, Ellen Wright Clayton
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This movie makes two important points despite its admitted unreality. The first, which the screen writer probably did not fully appreciate at the time, is that genetic testing cannot now and probably will never be able to predict with complete certainty the occurrence and course of complex diseases. It is not true that "Genes-R-Us." Rather, we are the products of complex interactions of our genes, the genomes of other organisms (many of which we live in relation with), and the environment, broadly understood to include the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the drugs we …