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How Can We Best Evaluate, and Compensate for, Genetic Hazards in the Environment and Workplace

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Much of this conference has been concerned with issues created by the “New Genetics,” however that be defined. We have turned in this closing session to a much less spectacular issue, but an issue that, in the aggregate, will probably impact, directly or indirectly, on just as many people as any of the other issues covered at this meeting. I refer to the question of the genetic implications of a wide variety of potentially mutagenic exposures in the workplace and the environment.

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  1. Department of Human Genetics Kresge I, Room 4560, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    James V. Neel M.D., Ph.D. (Lee R. Dice University Professor)

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  1. Center for Human Genetics, Boston University School of Medicine, 80 East Concord Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02118, USA

    Aubrey Milunsky MB.B.Ch., D.Sc., F.R.C.P, D.C.H. (Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Pathology, Director) (Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Pathology, Director)

  2. Health Law Section, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, 80 East Concord Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02118, USA

    George J. Annas J.D., M.P.H. (Edward Utley Professor of Health Law Chief) (Edward Utley Professor of Health Law Chief)

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Neel, J.V. (1985). How Can We Best Evaluate, and Compensate for, Genetic Hazards in the Environment and Workplace. In: Milunsky, A., Annas, G.J. (eds) Genetics and the Law III. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4952-5_33

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