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11/11/2007: "Fear of racial genetics"

Ancestry tests tell customers what percentage of their genes are from Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. The heart-disease drug BiDil is marketed exclusively to African-Americans, who seem genetically predisposed to respond to it. Jews are offered prenatal tests for genetic disorders rarely found in other ethnic groups.

Such developments are providing some of the first tangible benefits of the genetic revolution. Yet some social critics fear they may also be giving long-discredited racial prejudices a new potency. The notion that race is more than skin deep, they fear, could undermine principles of equal treatment and opportunity that have relied on the presumption that we are all fundamentally equal.

[ "Reality is offensive - must go into denial - now I feel immortal." ]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/us/11dna.html?_r=3&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&oref=login&oref=slogin