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color:#333300;font-weight:bold'>2009 Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and
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color:#993300;font-weight:bold'>Reflections on the Shifting Political &
Cultural Status of Human Molecular Genetics<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>In the short
space of four decades, human genetics has catapulted from the “poor
relative” of the genetic sciences to a vanguard position in both public consciousness
and funding status. Part of this is explained by the revolution in
molecular genetics brought about by both the reality and the hyperbole of the
mapping and sequencing of the human genome. Part of this is explained by
the unrealistic hopes of both producers and consumers for a “genetic
fix” to complex human problems – from diseases to behaviors to
attributes. From ancestry tracing to crime scene investigation, from
direct-to-consumer diagnostics to proposals for long-term gene-environment research,
we have witnessed a dramatic shift in both the political and cultural status of
human genetics. In the coming decade, we will see a clear fleshing out of
these trends – nowhere more clearly than in the idea of race.<b><span
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