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From: eesnyder@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric E. Snyder)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Karyotyping procedure
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Date: 10 Nov 90 22:02:55 GMT
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In article <6020@ncsugn.ncsu.edu> emigh@ncsugn.UUCP (Ted H. Emigh) writes:
>We have a written protocol which I can send to anyone interested.
>
>Now, on to some of the ethical problems:
>The reason we stopped using student cells was the problem
>of discovering students with nonnormal karyotypes -- XYY, balanced
>translocations, XY females, etc.  We could not take the risk of a student
>discovering her/his "abnormal" karyotype without the benefits of genetic
>counseling.

Do these abnormalities occur at a sufficiently high frequency to 
justify this decision or it is a result of the paranoia inspired by
our litigious society?

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