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White evangelical Protestants among the least likely to consider gene editing to reduce lifetime disease risk appropriate

Nine-in-ten white evangelical Protestants see gene editing for intelligence as taking technology too far

Statistical models predicting opinions about appropriate uses of gene editing

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