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Indiana's Senate approves House Bill 1521 to protect citizens' genetic data with requirements for informed consent.

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23andme declared bankruptcy in late March, sparking concerns about data security for its users. © Smith Collection/Gado/Getty ...

There is a federal law, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008, that is supposed to protect Americans from outcomes like these, but experts have noted GINA is far from foolproof.

The problem of genetic discrimination was aired during a recent debate about how the unraveling of the human genome could affect patient care in the future. "What we have now is an immense amount ...