Taking Exception to Human Eugenics

Affiliations

¹ Donnelly Centre and Departments of Molecular Genetics and Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8, Canada fritz.roth@utoronto.ca wakeley@fas.harvard.edu.
² Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 fritz.roth@utoronto.ca wakeley@fas.harvard.edu.

Comment

Frederick P Roth et al. Genetics. 2016 Oct.

. 2016 Oct;204(2):821-823.

doi: 10.1534/genetics.116.192096.

¹ Donnelly Centre and Departments of Molecular Genetics and Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8, Canada fritz.roth@utoronto.ca wakeley@fas.harvard.edu.
² Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 fritz.roth@utoronto.ca wakeley@fas.harvard.edu.

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Mutation, Eugenics, and the Boundaries of Science.
Lynch M. Lynch M. Genetics. 2016 Oct;204(2):825-827. doi: 10.1534/genetics.116.194621. Genetics. 2016. PMID: 27729497 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Mutation and Human Exceptionalism: Our Future Genetic Load.
Lynch M. Lynch M. Genetics. 2016 Mar;202(3):869-75. doi: 10.1534/genetics.115.180471. Genetics. 2016. PMID: 26953265 Free PMC article.

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