Public preferences and the challenge to genetic research policy
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Public preferences and the challenge to genetic research policy
Modern genetic research requires scientists to collect, store, and study DNA samples and health information from thousands of people. Longstanding policy allows researchers to use samples and information without a person's informed consent as long as the person's identity is protected. Under existing policy, researchers must neither disclose study results to interested research participants nor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Law and the Biosciences
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2053-9711
DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lst001