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In the early 1960s, health care professionals were attracted to the new insights of cytogenetics, including the chromosomal explanation of Down syndrome and of other congenital defects and abnormalities of sexual development. The discovery of a connection between myeloid leukemia and chromosomal abnormalities in leukemic cells made human cytogenetics suddenly relevant to cancer research and diagnosis. Successful dietary treatment of phenylketonuria brought genetic disease into the domain of public health and provoked legislative programs with sweeping long\u2010term consequences. Meanwhile, those promoting the importance of genetic disease to medical education began to elaborate the idea that disease was literally becoming more genetic, as a consequence of techno\u2010historical change. In this article, I present an overview of these remarkable events and a framework for understanding how and why they occurred. 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