Understanding the Australian public's expectations of personalised genomics

了解澳大利亚公众对个性化基因组学的期望

• 批准号: DP150100597
• 负责人: Prof Sylvia Metcalfe
• 金额: $ 40.21万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2018-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP150100597
• 关键词: Understanding; Australian; public; expectations; personalised

This multi-disciplinary project aims to be the first to explore the Australian public's awareness of new developments in genetic science that allow healthy individuals to access their own genetic makeup. Called 'personal genomics', this broad group of genetic tests can be used for a variety of purposes that include ancestry, paternity, sporting ability and health. These tests are developing at a rapid rate yet little is known about why, how and where they are used by the public. This project will employ a mixed methods approach to examine how the public might engage with this new technology. The research aims to help define educational strategies and supports and thereby to inform national policy for personal genomics.

这个多学科的项目旨在成为第一个探索澳大利亚公众对遗传科学新发展的认识，使健康的个人能够获得自己的基因组成。被称为“个人基因组学”，这一广泛的基因测试组可用于各种目的，包括血统，亲子关系，运动能力和健康。这些测试正在迅速发展，但人们对公众使用这些测试的原因、方式和地点知之甚少。该项目将采用混合方法来研究公众如何参与这项新技术。这项研究旨在帮助确定教育战略和支持，从而为个人基因组学的国家政策提供信息。