Issues of Normative Regulation of State Registration of Human Genomic Information

The purpose of this article is to identify problematic issues in the normative regulation of state registration of human genomic information and to make proposals to facilitate their resolution. The methodological basis of the study was various general scientific and special research methods: analysis, structural and functional, synergistic, regulatory and logical, comparative and legal, analogy, extrapolation, and legal interpretation. Main conclusions. Genetic information makes it possible to identify a person with high accuracy and, accordingly, is of great practical importance in matters of prevention, investigation, detection of crimes, and identification of the persons who committed them, allows to improve the work of searching for missing persons and identification of unrecognizable human corpses, etc. Forensic examinations based on molecular genetic studies are conducted by forensic experts of forensic research institutions of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, expert service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, expert units of the Security Service of Ukraine in specialty 9.5 “Molecular genetic research” and experts of the Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, specializing in forensic medical examination. The author substantiates the need to develop and adopt the following procedures: mandatory state registration of human genomic information; voluntary state registration of human genomic information; storage of biological material selected for mandatory state registration of genomic information; destruction of biological material selected for state registration of genomic information.