Managing Incidental Genomic Findings in Clinical Trials: Fulfillment of the Principle of Justice

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dal Ré, Rafael ^a   Katsanis, Nicholas ^b   Katsanis, Sara ^c   Parker, Lisa S ^d   Ayuso, Carmen ^e,f  

^a Clinical Research Program   (Spain)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN JIMÉNEZ DÍAZ   (Spain)

^f CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 84893795285     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001584     Document Type: Article

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