Multidimensional results reporting to participants in genomic studies: Getting it right

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 37, 2010, Pages

  Kohane, Isaac S ^a   Taylor, Patrick L ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE PAIRING; BENEFICENCE; BIOETHICS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; NOTE; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESEARCH ETHICS; STANDARD;

COHORT STUDIES; ETHICS, RESEARCH; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77955610460     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3000809     Document Type: Note

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