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Edited by Lori B. Andrews, Jane E. Fullarton, Neil A. Holtzman, and Arno G. Motulsky. 338 pp. Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 1994. $44.95. ISBN 0-309-04798-6.

Recently, a scientist who had cloned a gene for achondroplasia was asked by a reporter for National Public Radio to comment on the use of prenatal genetic testing by prospective parents with very short stature who wanted to be certain that all their future children would inherit the variant of this gene for dwarfism. The scientist's response clearly indicated that he was not prepared for this particular application of his discovery.

Most of us are in the same boat — unprepared for the inevitable, and potentially explosive, conflicts that will arise when the power to predict both disease states and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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