In an era of test tube babies and cloning, GINA is an attempt to keep pace with technology and address ethical concerns surrounding our understanding of genes and chromosomes. The Human Genome Project enabled scientists to map the genes located on the 46 human chromosomes that determine our physical characteristics and susceptibility to disease. Amidst widespread ethical concerns that the power to analyze the human body at the genetic level would be abused, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 was enacted.
