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The Deceptive Appeal of Direct to Consumer Genetics

May 9, 2019 - 4:00 pm

Wylie Burke, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington

Genetic testing is marketed to consumers as the key to better health.  Yet health is largely the outcome of complex social environments.  How should we respond to the popular misunderstandings that inform direct to consumer genetics?

Sponsored by the Center for Research on Ethical, Legal & Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic & Behavioral Genetics and Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

4:00 – 5:00 PM

Florence Irving Auditorium, Herbert Irving Center for Cancer Research, 1st Floor, 1130 Saint Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY 10032