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LUNA BARRON, Beatriz et al. Bioethical aspects in current human genetics. Cuad. - Hosp. Clín. [online]. 2015, vol.56, n.1, pp.42-47. ISSN 1562-6776.

Nowdays, the life and health sciences have achieved significant milestones allowing the emergence of new branches, such as genetic engineering, molecular genetics, medical genetics and genomics, which pose scientific and technical criteria to sort and conduct their professional work. Thus, we consider important to analyze and reflect from the bioethical standpoint advances in the field of human genetics, addressing the following topics: Paternity tests, studies that are intended to determine the genetic link up (kinship) in the first degree between an individual and his male parent. The carrier screening used to determine whether a person is a carrier of a genetic disease, usually applied to individuals heterozygous fora recessive gene, or individuals heterozygous fora dominant gene that do notexpress the disease and chromosomal rearrangements. Eugenics, conceived as a social ideology, is defined as improving a species, as a science is the branch of genetic engineering that studies the improvement of the human species. Human cloning is a topic that generates more discussion not only from an ethical view, but also philosophical and religious points of view, since it has been shown that you can reprogram a differentiated cell of an adult, becoming a highly specialized cell into an embryo and make it go back in their genetic program, thus obtaining identical to the first one. As health professionals, we try to preserve life, not forgetting that we should give adequate quality of life to our patients with ethical conditions

Palabras clave : Bioethics; human genetics; paternity testing; sieve carriers; eugenics and human cloning.

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