ELSI (Ethical, Legal and Social Implications)
Definition
The research domain and policy framework addressing the broader consequences of genetic science, including forensic genetics: familial searching, genetic privacy, consent, discriminatory impacts, and the downstream use of forensic genetic data. Originally developed alongside the Human Genome Project in the 1990s.
Related terms
- BSA 2023 § 39
- Section 39 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023, the provision governing expert opinion evidence in Indian courts. Replaced Indian Evidence Act 1872...
- Daubert Standard
- The US federal evidentiary standard (Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 1993) requiring that expert testimony be based on scientifically valid methods with...
- Familial Searching
- The deliberate use of partial DNA profile matches in a forensic database to identify biological relatives of an unknown contributor, on the...
- Frye Standard
- The US legal test for admissibility of scientific evidence, originating from Frye v. United States (1923), which required that a technique be...
- People V. Castro (1989)
- New York Supreme Court case in which early RFLP DNA evidence was excluded under the Frye standard because the specific testing procedures...
- Prosecutor's Fallacy
- The error of treating the RMP (or its reciprocal) as the probability that the defendant is innocent, or as the probability that...
- R V. Doheny and Adams (1996)
- UK Court of Appeal judgment (Lord Justice Phillips) establishing the framework for DNA statistical evidence: the expert reports the random-match probability; the...
Explained in
- Admissibility and Ethics: Daubert, Frye, R v. Doheny and ELSIThe research domain and policy framework addressing the broader consequences of genetic science, including forensic genetics: familial searching, genetic priva...