China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American (Yale) Expertise - from a Yale scientist sadly all too familiar to this author

You saw it here on Healthcare Renewal first.In 2005 and 2007 I ' d written the posts:"Academic abuses in biomedicine vs. Indigenous Peoples: The Genographic Project" (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/09/academic-abuses-in-biomedicine-vs.html)and"Informed consent, exploitation and developing a SNP panel for forensic identification of individuals" (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2007/07/informed-consent-and-developing-snp.html)respectively.The theme of these posts was that genetics research (especially that centering on profiling) by unscrupulous scientists could have unforeseen, adverse (if not devastating) consequences to minority populations and oppressed peoples.A common theme between those posts was the work of Yale Professor of Genetics Kenneth Kidd, PhD, a professor with whom I ' d worked as Yale faculty myself on the Yale-Saudi Arabia collaboration in clinical genetics and birth defects of the mid 1990s. That relationship did not end well [1, 2].Dr. Kidd, a key figure in the controversial, failed Human Genome Diversity Project, a genetics collection effort feared by indigenous populations being studied due to their concerns about exploitation and abuse, had tried in early 1996, at the end of the Saudi project, to misappropriate the EMR/genetics analysis, query and correlation system I ' d written.  This had caused me great distress and expense in defense of my IP [1].  This fundamental breach of ethics and trust by such a key figure in that type of globa...
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