Genetic Information Research Paper

Knowing genetic information can be helpful to different individuals under different circumstances. However, there are still people in the society who will abuse their knowledge of the genetic information that they know.

There are instances of life-insurance companies of abusing their customer’s genetic information by making the wrong judgement of the life coverage in the customer’s insurance. This incident occurs in the United States. In his insurance policy, he was not covered for cancer due to his genetic information. The customer had undergone for a genetic testing, and discovered that he has a mutated gene which lead to him having a higher risk of getting cancer. He was also denied from full life-insurance coverage by other companies. The insurance company is abusing about the knowledge that they had with regard to the
This allows their officers to have a better understanding about genetic information. The officers will also be able to offer a more suitable life insurance to the customer instead of denying them the coverage that they should have when they purchased the insurance.
There are also instances where students were asked to leave the schools due to their genetic information. A student from Palo Alto was asked to leave the school due to his genetic information. This student is born with congenital heart disease and his doctors decided to let him go for genetic testing. According to this student’s genetic information, he has a higher risk of getting cystic fibrosis. His parents wrote this information into his medical history. Later, the student was asked to transfer to another school because he might develop cystic fibrosis. The school is afraid that he will spread lung diseases to other students. However, the student does not have cystic fibrosis at all. The school discriminates the student because of his genetic