Foundations in genetic science

2010 ◽  
pp. 13-32
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Science

Engaging the White Possessive

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
New Work ◽  
White People ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Identity Fraud ◽  
Power Property ◽  
Genetic Science ◽  
Drag Queens

In this issue of Kalfou, my book The White Possessive: Power, Property, and Indigenous Sovereignty receives attention from three scholars whose work I admire and respect. George Lipsitz’s The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics was seminal in conceptualizing the possessive logics of patriarchal white sovereignty, while Fiona Nicoll’s From Diggers to Drag Queens: Configurations of Australian National Identity heavily influenced my work on the formation of white national identity. Kim TallBear’s Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science has been instructive in shaping my new work on the possessive racial logics of Indigenous identity fraud. I am honored they ha

No Gain, No Pain: Ethics and the Genomic Revolution

2008 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 562-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin T. Hall ◽  
Anna Scheyett ◽  
Kimberly Strom-Gottfried
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Prevention And Treatment ◽  
Genetics Knowledge ◽  
Genetic Science ◽  
Genetic Contributions ◽  
Genomic Revolution

The mapping of the human genome and scientific discoveries regarding genetic contributions to disease hold great promise for the prevention and treatment of an array of conditions. Social workers and other professionals must keep abreast of these developments and the ethical dimensions of such progress. Familiar ethical provisions such as confidentiality, informed consent, self-determination, and social justice take on new meaning in light of innovations in genetic science. This article reviews ethical issues and practice implications emerging from advances in genetics knowledge, and it suggests mechanisms for continuing professional development and involvement in this important area.

Genomic Science—From 2001 to Present Day: What School Nurses Need to Know

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Barnby ◽  
Mark Reynolds ◽  
Pamela O’Neal
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
21St Century ◽  
School Nurses ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Medically Fragile ◽  
Genetic Science ◽  
Genomic Science ◽  
Genomic Sciences ◽  
Information And Technology

Genetic science has made remarkable advances in the 21st century. As genetic and genomic sciences continue to expand, school nurses will become thoroughly immersed in data, information, and technology. As new diseases, treatments, and therapies are discovered, school nurses will need to implement and assess best practices for the complex and medically fragile student population. This article will discuss the top 10 recent discoveries in genomic science and how school nurses can use this information in clinical practice.

scholarly journals Yield of peripheral sodium channels gene screening in pure small fibre neuropathy

2018 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivo Eijkenboom ◽  
Maurice Sopacua ◽  
Janneke G J Hoeijmakers ◽  
Bianca T A de Greef ◽  
Patrick Lindsey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sodium Channels ◽  
Clinical Features ◽  
Genetic Screening ◽  
Clinical Genetic ◽  
Genetic Studies ◽  
Small Fibre Neuropathy ◽  
Reference Centre ◽  
Pathogenic Variants ◽  
Small Fibre ◽  
Genetic Science

BackgroundNeuropathic pain is common in peripheral neuropathy. Recent genetic studies have linked pathogenic voltage-gated sodium channel (VGSC) variants to human pain disorders. Our aims are to determine the frequency of SCN9A, SCN10A and SCN11A variants in patients with pure small fibre neuropathy (SFN), analyse their clinical features and provide a rationale for genetic screening.MethodsBetween September 2009 and January 2017, 1139 patients diagnosed with pure SFN at our reference centre were screened for SCN9A, SCN10A and SCN11A variants. Pathogenicity of variants was classified according to established guidelines of the Association for Clinical Genetic Science and frequencies were determined. Patients with SFN were grouped according to the VGSC variants detected, and clinical features were compared.ResultsAmong 1139 patients with SFN, 132 (11.6%) patients harboured 73 different (potentially) pathogenic VGSC variants, of which 50 were novel and 22 were found in ≥ 1 patient. The frequency of (potentially) pathogenic variants was 5.1% (n=58/1139) for SCN9A, 3.7% (n=42/1139) for SCN10A and 2.9% (n=33/1139) for SCN11A. Only erythromelalgia-like symptoms and warmth-induced pain were significantly more common in patients harbouring VGSC variants.Conclusion(Potentially) pathogenic VGSC variants are present in 11.6% of patients with pure SFN. Therefore, genetic screening of SCN9A, SCN10A and SCN11A should be considered in patients with pure SFN, independently of clinical features or underlying conditions.

scholarly journals Genetic Ancestry Testing among White Nationalists

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Panofsky ◽  
Joan Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Genetic Basis ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Genetic Ancestry ◽  
European Ancestry ◽  
Genetic Knowledge ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Genetic Science ◽  
White Nationalism ◽  
Interpretive Framework

Using a data set drawn from the website Stormfront, this paper presents a qualitative analysis of online discussions of white nationalist individuals’ genetic ancestry test (GAT) results. Seeking genetic confirmation of personal identities and having a strong ideology of the genetic basis of race and the value of white “purity,” white nationalists using GATs are sometimes confronted with information they consider evidence of non-white or non-European ancestry. Despite their essentialist views of race, Stormfront posters use GAT information to police individuals’ membership far less commonly than working to develop a variety of scientific and anti-scientific responses enabling them to repair identities by rejecting or reinterpreting GAT results. Simultaneously, however, Stormfront posters use the particular relationships made visible by GATs to debate the collective boundaries and constitution of white nationalism. Bricoleurs with genetic knowledge, white nationalists use a “racial realist” interpretive framework that departs from canons of genetic science but cannot be dismissed simply as ignorant.

Rethinking Reprogenetics

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inmaculada de Melo-Martin
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Disease ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Reproductive Choice ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Remarkable Degree ◽  
Reproductive Techniques ◽  
Degree Of Control ◽  
Genetic Science ◽  
Prospective Parents

Reprogenetic technologies, which combine the power of reproductive techniques with the tools of genetic science and technology, promise prospective parents a remarkable degree of control to pick and choose the likely characteristics of their offspring. Prominent authors such as Agar, Buchanan, DeGrazia, Green, Harris, Robertson, Savulescu, and Silver have flocked to the banner of reprogenetics. For them, increased reproductive choice and reduced suffering through the elimination of genetic disease and disability are just the first step. They advocate use of these technologies to create beings who enjoy longer and healthier lives, possess greater intellectual capacities, and are capable of more refined emotional experiences. Indeed, Harris and Savulescu take reprogenetic technologies to be so valuable that their use is not only morally permissible but morally obligatory. Rethinking Reprogenetics challenges this mainstream view with a contextualized, gender-attentive philosophical perspective. It shows that one need not be a Luddite, a social conservative, or a religious zealot to be critical of reprogenetics. Pointing out the flawed nature of the arguments put forward by the technologies’ proponents, Rethinking Reprogenetics reveals the problematic nature of the assumptions underpinning current evaluations of these technologies and offers a framework for a more critical and skeptical assessment.

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