An ethics safe harbor for international genomics research?

Genome Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Dove, Edward S ^a   Knoppers, Bartha M ^a   Zawati, Ma'n H ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; GENOMICS; GOVERNMENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MONITORING; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; REGISTRATION; RESEARCH ETHICS; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION;

EID: 84888093815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gm503     Document Type: Article

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