{"id":229803,"date":"2023-03-04T20:02:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T14:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=229803"},"modified":"2023-03-04T20:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T14:32:44","slug":"twist-in-helix-regulating-consumer-genomics-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/twist-in-helix-regulating-consumer-genomics-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Twist In Helix \u2013 Regulating consumer genomics in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201c<strong>Twist In Helix \u2013 Regulating consumer genomics in India<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>The Times of India<\/strong> on\u00a0<strong>4<sup>th<\/sup> March 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Science and Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong>Concerns associated with genome-testing kits<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Indian companies are launching genome-testing kits that would be used by common people at homes to test their DNAs. This has various concerns associated with it.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the concerns with genome-testing kits?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Data Protection: <\/strong>Gene-testing companies tie up with third parties and India also does not have any law on personal data protection. Therefore, there are concerns over misuses of the citizens\u2019 personal data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discrimination by insurance companies:<\/strong> Gene-testing can help to know a person\u2019s risk over Type-2 diabetes or Alzheimer\u2019s and other genetic diseases. This might lead to discrimination by the health insurance companies over giving the insurance.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What can be the way ahead?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Genome testing kits are popular in the US and even there it was found that gene-testing companies tie up with third parties.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, there is a need for the personal data protection law as well as the need to regulate information acquired by such testing companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cTwist In Helix \u2013 Regulating consumer genomics in India\u201d published in The Times of India on\u00a04th March 2023. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Science and Technology Relevance: Concerns associated with genome-testing kits News: Indian companies are launching genome-testing kits that would be used by common people at homes to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/twist-in-helix-regulating-consumer-genomics-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twist In Helix \u2013 Regulating consumer genomics in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-229803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703015173},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}