From genetic privacy to open consent

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 406-411

  Lunshof, Jeantine E ^a   Chadwick, Ruth ^b   Vorhaus, Daniel B ^c   Church, George M ^d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Robinson Bradshaw and Hinson PA   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENTIALITY; ETHICS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; REVIEW;

BIOETHICS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS;

EID: 42349088372     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2360     Document Type: Review

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