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Human Genome Project

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Name: Francis Collins (NIH); Craig Venter (Celera Genomics)

Date: 1990 - 2003

Definition: Map all of the genes in the human genome

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Buzzanca v Buzzanca

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Names: John and Luanne Buzzanca

Date: 1998

Definition: Court case that went up to CA Court of Appeals

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deCODE Genetics

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Name: Kari Stefansson

Date: Founded in 1996

Definition: Company that set of Icelandic Health Database (IHD)

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Dolly

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Name: Keith Cambpell and Ian Wilmut of Roslin Institute

Date: Born in 1996

Definition: First mammal cloned via SCNT

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SNP

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Definition: Single nucleotide polymorphism, a variance in a ingle base pair in a DNA sequence

Importance: Underlines differences in susceptibility to diseases such as sickle-cell anemia and cystic fibrosis

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Stratified Reproduction

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Name: Term coined by Shellee Colen

Date: Term coined in 1986

Definition: Disparities increase as privileged groups have access to new technologies and others do not.

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Louise Brown

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Name: Parents John and Lesley Brown

Date: Born in 1978

Definition: First baby born via IVF

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CRISPR

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Name: Feng Zhang, George Church, Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier

Date: Used for gene editing in 2013 by Zheng

Definition: Stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats; refers to a family. of DNA sequences in bacteria and archaeological; using CRISPR sequences can perform gene editting

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Intracytoplasmic sperm injection

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Name: Gianpiero Palermo

Date: First performed in 1987

Definition: IVF procedure in which a single sperm cell is injected directly into the cytoplasm of an egg

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Uniform Parentage Act

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Name: Uniform Law Commission, a non-profit association that aims to provide US states with legislation

Date: Promulgated in 1973, revised in 2002

Definition: Regards which persons may bring a paternity suit before the court

Importance: 2002 revision allows any interested party to file paternity complaint on behalf of the child