In the Russian Federation, a National Genetic Information Database will be created by 2024, and in 2009 a “forensic” genetic information database was formed.
On December 23, 2020, the State Duma legalized the mandatory collection of DNA from criminals and suspects. Registration is mandatory for all convicted persons serving a sentence of imprisonment, those suspected and accused of committing crimes, as well as persons subject to administrative arrest. Until December 2020, genomic registration was mandatory only for convicts serving sentences of imprisonment for committing grave or especially grave crimes, all categories of crimes against sexual integrity and sexual freedom of the individual, as well as unidentified persons whose biological material was seized during investigative proceedings. actions, reports zdrav.expert.
The new database of genetic material will contain information from a variety of living organisms, including humans. The Russian government promises to keep people’s genetic information in a depersonalized form: people’s data will be stored in it in an anonymized form, said Alexander Blagov, director of the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, reports nauka.tass.ru.
Thus, the National Genetic Information Database will contain systematized information about the human genome that is accessible to domestic scientists, which will allow Russia to achieve significant progress in the development of genetic technologies.
On the other hand, the National Genetic Information Database is needed for the timely prevention or successful treatment of diseases, Artem Elmuratov, director of development of the medical genetic center Genotek, said on Komsomolskaya Pravda radio. According to the expert, thanks to such a registry, doctors will have access to personal information of patients and will be able to predict the risks of diseases in a particular patient; the creation of a unified database will contribute to the development of personalized medicine, when doctors take into account the individual characteristics of each person, writes ria.ru.