Australia; International; QLD
An Australian expert is among those warning that an urgent society-wide discussion is needed after some companies started offering embryo selection based on genetic risk scores for diseases such as Alzheimer's and diabetes, with at least one company investigating genetic risk scores for education, household income, cognitive ability, and even well-being. The experts say genetic risk scores cannot simply be extrapolated to embryos, and the vast majority of relationships between genetic variants and traits are not yet known — and we will never know all of them. They write that historical eugenic policies that sought to eliminate people deemed “feeble-minded” or otherwise socially “unfit” make embryo selection for educational attainment, income, intelligence, and related traits deeply concerning.
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