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Charles Dupras, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Montreal, Canada
Verified email at umontreal.ca
Cited by 883

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
… The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship,
and/or publication of this article: Charles Dupras was awarded postdoctoral fellowships by …

[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 ‘…

[HTML][HTML] Researcher perspectives on ethics considerations in epigenetics: an international survey

C Dupras, T Knoppers, N Palmour, E Beauchamp… - Clinical …, 2022 - Springer
Over the past decade, bioethicists, legal scholars and social scientists have started to
investigate the potential implications of epigenetic research and technologies on medicine and …

Don't ignore genetic data from minority populations

…, A Diaz-Papkovich, HM Munter, AV Grant, C Dupras… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Efforts to build representative studies are defeated when scientists discard data from certain
groups. Instead, researchers should work to balance statistical needs with fairness.

The ambiguous nature of epigenetic responsibility

C Dupras, V Ravitsky - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2016 - jme.bmj.com
… Contributors Charles Dupras developed the original idea and argument presented in this
paper. He wrote the first draft of the manuscript. Then, it went back and forth between the …

Epigenetics and the environment in bioethics

C Dupras, V Ravitsky, B Williams‐Jones - Bioethics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
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, geographic, cultural or …

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] 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 omics …

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 …