Genetic policy deals with the interface between bioethical and legal evaluation and its transformation into binding regulations at both institutional and national levels.

For example, should researchers be allowed to create a genetic database of Ashkenazi schizophrenic patients? The question also gives rise to legal and ethical issues, but the practical application is in creating regulatory guidelines for developing and protecting genetic sampling databases.

Other questions currently on the agenda are marketing genetic samples directly to consumers without medical mediation, selecting the gender of a fetus without medical justification, egalitarian accessibility to advanced genetic technology for all populations, and more.

• Genetic Testing in the Ultra-Orthodox Population - "Dor Yesharim"
• Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: ethical-legal perspectives and practical considerations
• Selecting the Gender of the Fetus
• Ethical Criteria for Prioritizing Health Services and Technologies -

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