Public concern about genetic discrimination, particularly access to insurance following
genetic testing, has been reported in the literature. This paper aims to separate myths from …

Background Since the late 1980s, genetic discrimination has remained one of the major
concerns associated with genetic research and clinical genetics. Europe has adopted a …

Within the medical, legal and bioethical literature, there has been an increasing concern that
the information derived from genetic tests may be used to unfairly discriminate against …

The debate surrounding the role of life insurance, the necessity of risk rating, and the notion
of “acceptable discrimination” has raised questions about the larger social role of insurance …

Whether insurance companies should have access to genetic test results of insurance
applicants and/or should be allowed to impose such testing as part of insurance …

Genetic testing can provide valuable information to mitigate personal disease risk, but the
use of genetic results in life insurance underwriting is known to deter many consumers from …

This paper presents an inter-disciplinary study of the risk for, and protections against,
genetic discrimination in access to life insurance in Ukraine. It aims (i) to review questions …

Fears of genetic discrimination in life insurance continue to deter some Australians from
genetic testing. In July 2019, the life insurance industry introduced a partial, self-regulated …

This article addresses the reliance on genetic information as part of the private insurance
industry's practice of risk segmentation whereby underwriting decisions are based on risk …

In an era of personalized medicine rife with population databases and international
consortia, genetic discrimination is once again moving to the forefront of the genetics policy …