Volume 36, Number 8 · May 18, 1989
Should Genes Be Screened?
By M.F. Perutz
Proceed With Caution: Predicting Genetic Risks in the Recombinant DNA Era
by Neil A. Holtzman
Johns Hopkins University Press, 303 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Genetic screening aims to reduce the incidence of inherited diseases, which are responsible for about a third of all admissions of children into hospitals and one half of the deaths of children under fifteen. A committee of the National Academy of Sciences defines genetic screening as 'a search in an apparently healthy population for those individuals with genotypes that place them or their offspring at high risk of disease.'
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