Predictive Genetic Diagnosis
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(Author: Staff from Inter-University Chair in Law and the Human Genome, Spain)
As it is known, there are various types of predictive genetic diagnosis -preconceptive, preimplantation, prenatal and postnatal-, and the regulation of them it will be quiet different depending on the countries.
(Collected by: Staff from Inter-University Chair in Law and the Human Genome, Spain)
European legislation on predictive genetic diagnosis has been in place since the early 1990s. The main legislation currently in place are:
- Genetic manipulations European Parliament Resolution of 16 March 1989 on the ethical and juridical problemns in relation to genetic manipulations
- Artificial fertilization European Parliament Resolution of 16 March 1989 on "in vivo" and "in vitro" artificial fertilization
- Human Rights and Biomedicine Council of Europe. Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, of 19 November 1996
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