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You are born with your genes: justice and protection against discrimination in the use of genetic information.

The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York - 1 Jan 2000

Francis Leslie P

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Genetic information poses an apparent paradox for justice in health care. On the one hand, genetic information seems to be exactly the kind of information that it is unjust to take into account in the distribution of important goods. On the other hand, genetic information may increasingly become useful in individual patient care as evidence for personalized medicine increases. Although it is important to...

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PMID: 20309923
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20170

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