Editing Genetic testing (section)

== The Genographic Project ==
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In 2005, National Geographic launched the "Genographic Project", which was a fifteen-year project that was discontinued in 2020. Over one million people participated in the DNA sampling from more than 140 countries, which made the project the largest of its kind ever conducted.<ref>{{Cite journal | vauthors = Duane J |date=June 2008 |title=Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project Wells Spencer . Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project. 2006. National Geographic Society. Washington, DC. $12.95, paperback. 247 pp. ISBN 13: 978-1426201189. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3398/1527-0904(2008)68[260:daitgp]2.0.co;2 |journal=Western North American Naturalist |volume=68 |issue=2 |pages=260–261 |doi=10.3398/1527-0904(2008)68[260:daitgp]2.0.co;2 |s2cid=86171633 |issn=1527-0904|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The project asked for DNA samples from indigenous people as well as the general public, which spurred political controversy among some indigenous groups, leading to the coining of the term "biocolonialism".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism |url=http://ipcb.org/issues/human_genetics/htmls/geno_pr.html |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=ipcb.org}}</ref>