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Nature 396, 303-306 (26 November 1998) | doi:10.1038/24470
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Back on track: the rebirth of human genetics in China
David Dickson1
Abstract
Concern about the growing interest of foreign companies and research institutes in China's wealth of genetic resources has helped the country's geneticists to cement political support for their own research efforts. In the process of doing so, the country appears to have successfully cast off the anti-Mendelian beliefs of its early communist era.
The eyes of many geneticists were focused on Beijing last summer, after a decision to hold the 18th International Congress on Genetics there had generated world-wide controversy over China's declared intention to use genetic screening as part of its birth control strategy.Ironically, however, the strenuous efforts by Chinese geneticists to arrange for the meeting to take place in Beijing — and to oppose efforts to shift it to another location in the face of boycott threats — had been partly prompted by a very different concern, the need to secure full backing for human genetics in political circles.
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