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To the Editor: The Sounding Board article by Elias and Annas (June 2 issue)¹ calling for enforceable regulation of genetic screening champions ignorance over knowledge and demonstrates incredible arrogance.

The current problem with genetic screening is that we have no data on the consequences of screening for an overwhelming number of defects that we either can screen for now or anticipate being able to screen for soon. To believe that we can anticipate these consequences without actually performing the basic experiment of testing and monitoring the outcome is ridiculous. For each gene we screen for there is likely to be . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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