Transcript Our Time To Lead

Our Time To Lead
The DNA Dilemma
(A Series in the Globe & Mail)
Personal Genome Project
• 100 000 Canadians are being asked to
participate
• Information will be placed on an online
database, open and available to anyone
in the world
• Watch this video:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/thepersonal-genome-project-a-brave-new-world-for-science-andprivacy/article6089124/
Steven Pinker
• psychologist & professor at Harvard
• participated in the Personal Genome
Project in the United States
• according to his genome, he has an
80% chance of being bald
• Evidently there is still a lot more to be
learned about the how genes determine
characteristics and how gene
expression is controlled…
Cancer In the Family…
• Would you want to know?
• Watch this video:
• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/n
ational/time-to-lead/cancer-in-thefamily-sisters-search-foranswers/article5929337/
Genetic Discrimination
• Canada is the only G8 country with no
laws against genetic discrimination
• Watch the Erno family’s story…
• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/n
ational/time-to-lead/video-albertacouple-struggles-with-the-results-of-agenetic-test/article6089127/
What would you do?
• If you found out that you had a gene
variant for a disease?
• Watch Chad Sapieha decided to do…
• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/n
ational/time-to-lead/a-genetic-testsolves-a-hereditary-mystery-and-savesa-life/article6131121/
The Series