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Practical guidelines addressing ethical issues pertaining to the curation of human locus-specific variation databases (LSDBs).
Human mutation - 1 Nov 2010
Povey Sue, Al Aqeel Aida I, Cambon-Thomsen Anne, Dalgleish Raymond, den Dunnen Johan T, Firth Helen V, Greenblatt Marc S, Barash Carol Isaacson, Parker Michael, Patrinos George P, Savige Judith, Sobrido Maria-Jesus, Winship Ingrid, Cotton Richard G H
Abstract excerpt
More than 1,000 Web-based locus-specific variation databases (LSDBs) are listed on the Website of the Human Genetic Variation Society (HGVS). These individual efforts, which often relate phenotype to genotype, are a valuable source of information for clinicians, patients, and their families, as well as for basic research. The initiators of the Human Variome Project recently recognized that having access to some...
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