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Chunk #11 — BACKDOOR TO EUGENICS

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The Genomic Revolution and Beliefs about Essential Racial Differences: A Backdoor to Eugenics?
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might be. Last November, researchers announced they had pinpointed the location of a gene, which they dubbed HPC1, that appears to cause about one-third of all inherited prostate cancer. . . . In a presentation Tuesday at the American Association for Cancer Research, Isaacs said the gene appears to be a much bigger factor in black families than in whites with the disease.(Haney 1997)