Friday, August 16, 2013

Regulating genomics: time for a broader vision

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/5/198/198ed12.short


 2013 Aug 14;5(198):198ed12. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3005797.

Regulating genomics: time for a broader vision.

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"Human genetics is a research area that readily attracts public attention, and the resulting momentum can be reinforced by using genetic information in effective ways to deliver higher-quality health care. This means abandoning several assumptions that structure much of our thinking about health and disease, namely that: (i) genetic information is used and interpreted in isolation; (ii) clinical and nonclinical contexts (for example, data in an individual’s personal domain) can be clearly separated; and (iii) regulators can differentiate between data that are health-relevant and those that are not."

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