{"id":3186,"date":"2022-11-15T18:44:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T23:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2022-12-02T13:53:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:53:17","slug":"beyond-the-medical-genetic-testing-for-social-traits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/2022\/11\/beyond-the-medical-genetic-testing-for-social-traits\/","title":{"rendered":"RESCHEDULED : Beyond the Medical: Genetic Testing for Social Traits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CGS Webinar | Friday, January 20, 2023 | 11:00am CT \/ 12:00pm ET<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>In traditional predictive genetic testing, single gene variants are analyzed to determine whether individuals are at high risk of developing disease. The vast majority of diseases, however, are polygenic\u2014caused by many different genes. Polygenic risk scores (PRS) hold promise to predict risk for complex diseases like heart disease or diabetes by measuring the contribution of hundreds of genetic variants at once. Yet beyond prediction of medical outcomes, the realm of \u2018sociogenomics\u2019 is developing polygenic scores (PGS) measuring genetic contributions to social traits and behavioral factors, such as income, educational attainment, sexuality, and optimism. This presentation will present initial findings of a newly-funded NIH grant to study these complex scores.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anya Prince<\/strong> is an associate professor of law and member of the University of Iowa Genetics Cluster. Her teaching and research interests explore the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic testing, with particular focus on genetic discrimination and privacy rights, the intersection of clinical and research ethics, and insurance coverage of genetic technologies and interventions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jean Cadigan<\/strong> is Associate Professor of Social Medicine and a core faculty member in the Center for Bioethics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. \u00a0Her teaching and research interests focus broadly on clinical and research ethics.\u00a0 She primarily conducts empirical studies that focus on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic research and practice from the point of view of patients, research participants, clinicians, scientists, and policy makers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Registration link<\/strong>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_Li3T_5AdQ3alvj5J6EsBLg\">https:\/\/zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_Li3T_5AdQ3alvj5J6EsBLg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CGS Webinar | Friday, January 20, 2023 | 11:00am CT \/ 12:00pm ET &#8212; In traditional predictive genetic testing, single gene variants are analyzed to determine whether individuals are at high risk of developing disease. The vast majority of diseases, however, are polygenic\u2014caused by many different genes. Polygenic risk scores (PRS) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/2022\/11\/beyond-the-medical-genetic-testing-for-social-traits\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RESCHEDULED : Beyond the Medical: Genetic Testing for Social Traits\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4284,"featured_media":3191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-events","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/540\/2022\/11\/Cadigan-Prince.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/540\/2022\/11\/Cadigan-Prince-300x279.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/540\/2022\/11\/Cadigan-Prince.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/540\/2022\/11\/Cadigan-Prince.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/540\/2022\/11\/Cadigan-Prince-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"","category_details":[{"name":"News and Events","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/category\/news-and-events\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/elsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}