The ethics of using transgenic non-human primates to study what makes us human

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 658-662

  Coors, Marilyn E ^a   Glover, Jacqueline J ^b   Juengst, Eric T ^c   Sikela, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Colorado Denver and Children s Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2;

APE; CHIMPANZEE; DOG; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL WELFARE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSFER; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH ETHICS; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; PRIMATES;

PRIMATES;

EID: 77955913127     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2864     Document Type: Review

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