Genome editing, Goldilocks and polygenic risk scores

Christopher Gyngell^{1

2}, Hilary Bowman-Smart¹, Julian Savulescu^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Biomedical Ethics Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Faculty of Philosophy, The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford, UK.

Comment

Christopher Gyngell et al. J Med Ethics. 2019 Aug.

. 2019 Aug;45(8):530-531.

doi: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105713. Epub 2019 Jul 26.

Christopher Gyngell^{1

2}, Hilary Bowman-Smart¹, Julian Savulescu^{1

3}

¹ Biomedical Ethics Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Faculty of Philosophy, The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford, UK.

No abstract available

Keywords: CRISPR; Ethics; enhancement; gene editing; gene therapy/transfer.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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