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Dr. Alice Virani specializes in the social, ethical and cultural implications of new genomic technologies. She holds a Masters in Public Health, a Masters in Human Sciences, and a PhD in medical genetics and applied ethics. She describes her work as a clinical ethicist. She explains family genetic data and why it raises questions of ethics. She says what she sees as the most important ethical questions that arise when family genetic data could be misused or abused, when it is widely distributed electronically and stored indefinitely in computers, and when people are asked to give consent to di
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