Article
Informed Consent and Other Ethical Issues in Human Population Genetics
1 Dec 2001
Abstract excerpt
Human population genetics has entered a new era of public interest, of controversy, and of ethical problems. Population genetics raises novel ethical problems because both the individuals and the populations being studied are, in effect, "subjects" of the research. Those populations are collectively subject to possible benefits and harms from the research and have interests, somewhat different from those of the...
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