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Charles Dupras, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Montreal, Canada
Verified email at umontreal.ca
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Epigenetics, ethics, law and society: A multidisciplinary review of descriptive, instrumental, dialectical and reflexive analyses

C Dupras, KM Saulnier, Y Joly - Social Studies of Science, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Epigenetics, defined as 'the study of mitotically and/or meiotically heritable changes in gene
function that cannot be explained by changes in DNA sequence', has emerged as a …

Looking beyond GINA: policy approaches to address genetic discrimination

Y Joly, C Dupras, M Pinkesz, SA Tovino… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Concerns about genetic discrimination (GD) often surface when discussing research and
innovation in genetics. Over recent decades, countries around the world have attempted to …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic discrimination: emerging applications of epigenetics pointing to the limitations of policies against genetic discrimination

C Dupras, L Song, KM Saulnier, Y Joly - Frontiers in Genetics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Over more than two decades, various policies have been adopted worldwide to restrict the
use of individual genetic information for non-medical reasons by third parties and prevent …

Don't ignore genetic data from minority populations

C Ben-Eghan, R Sun, JS Hleap, A Diaz-Papkovich… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
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The ambiguous nature of epigenetic responsibility

C Dupras, V Ravitsky - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2016 - jme.bmj.com
Over the past decade, epigenetic studies have been providing further evidence of the
molecular interplay between gene expression and its health outcomes on one hand, and the …

Epigenetics and the environment in bioethics

C Dupras, V Ravitsky, B Williams‐Jones - Bioethics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A rich literature in public health has demonstrated that health is strongly
influenced by a host of environmental factors that can vary according to social, economic …

[HTML][HTML] The value of non-invasive prenatal testing: preferences of Canadian pregnant women, their partners, and health professionals regarding NIPT use and access

S Birko, V Ravitsky, C Dupras, J Le Clerc-Blain… - BMC pregnancy and …, 2019 - Springer
Background Canadian policies regarding the implementation and public coverage of non-
invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) are heterogeneous and shifting, with NIPT being publicly …

Toward a framework for assessing privacy risks in multi-omic research and databases

C Dupras, EM Bunnik - The American Journal of Bioethics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
While the accumulation and increased circulation of genomic data have captured much
attention over the past decade, privacy risks raised by the diversification and integration of …

Epigenetics in the Neoliberal “Regime of Truth” A Biopolitical Perspective on Knowledge Translation

C Dupras, V Ravitsky - Hastings Center Report, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Recent findings in epigenetics have been attracting much attention from social scientists and
bioethicists because they reveal the molecular mechanisms by which exposure to …

Establishing the International genetic discrimination Observatory

Y Joly, G Dalpé, C Dupras, B Bévière-Boyer… - Nature Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Genetic discrimination is one of the most pervasive challenges resulting from research and
development in human genetics. To collaboratively study and prevent this ethical issue, we …