'Private fears in public places?' Ethical and regulatory concerns regarding human genomic databases

Personalized Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 447-452

  Prainsack, Barbara ^a   Gurwitz, David ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA SEQUENCE; EDITORIAL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; INTERNET; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 37349048543     PISSN: 17410541     EISSN: 1744828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17410541.4.4.447     Document Type: Editorial

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