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Impact of Behavior Genetics on Medicine and Society

Dean Hamer¹

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Received 26 November 2008 18:22 UTC; Posted 03 December 2008

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Genetics & Genomics

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• sexual orientation
• behavioral genetics
• serotonin

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Understanding the role of genes in human behavior will impact both medicine and society, but not always in the manner expected. Knowledge about behavioral genes can be used for the good, for example by improving psychiatric diagnoses, developing new drugs to treat mental illnesses, and dispelling harmful myths about certain types of human variation. However, the same sort of information could be used to discriminate against people, to provide quick fixes for social problems, or to support eugenics. How we use the new knowledge about molecular behavior genetics will depend on the legal, ethical and social policies that we develop.

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Stanford University: CIRGE Symposium June 6, 2006

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CIRGE Symposium: Interpreting Complexity, 06 June 2006

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Hamer, Dean. Impact of Behavior Genetics on Medicine and Society . Available from Nature Precedings <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2008.2564.1> (2008)

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