Ethical issues in human genomics research in developing countries

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  De Vries, Jantina ^a,b   Bull, Susan J ^a,b   Doumbo, Ogobara ^c   Ibrahim, Muntaser ^d   Mercereau Puijalon, Odile ^e   Kwiatkowski, Dominic ^b,f   Parker, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAMAKO   (Mali)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^f WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALARIA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; ETHICS, RESEARCH; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INCOME; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALARIA; NONTHERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; OWNERSHIP; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 79952707984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-12-5     Document Type: Article

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