Privacy Rules for DNA Databanks: Protecting Coded 'Future Diaries'

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 270, Issue 19, 1993, Pages 2346-2350

  Annas, George J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA BASE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE TECHNOLOGY; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DNA DATA BANKS; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; GENETIC DISORDERS; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LEGAL APPROACH; PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

CIVIL RIGHTS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DISCLOSURE; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORDS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0027482439     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1993.03510190102034     Document Type: Article

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