Question

biomedical ethics / question i

what is apossible problem for knowig in advance your genetic future? could it lead to eugenics ?

could you please make sure be at least 11to13 sentence!

Answer 1

Ans) The genetic testing is carried out nowadays by many individuals who want to predict if they are predisposed to certain types of cancers like retinoblastoma (eye cancer),breast cancer, other autoimmune disease risks like rheumatoid arthritis,hereditary disorders like diabetes,male pattern baldness prediction etc. Nowadays,it is even possible to manipulate the genes using CRISPR CAS9 technology to make "designer babies" as you can make the baby as you want (changing eye colour,treating unwanted deleterious genes like for diabetes etc).This can lead to eugenics by overall mainpulating the human genome to improve the genetic constitution of people.This information is possible only because of human genome project as our entire genome is mapped.But,the disadvantages of knowing the future is that the techniques are very costly and the gene therapy is too costly to treat defective genes in diabetes patients etc. So the people may get disappointed to know their future and this may even create anxiety,depression etc.