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Approaches to informed consent for hypothesis-testing and hypothesis-generating clinical genomics research.
BMC medical genomics - 10 Oct 2012
Facio Flavia M, Sapp Julie C, Linn Amy, Biesecker Leslie G
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BACKGROUND: Massively-parallel sequencing (MPS) technologies create challenges for informed consent of research participants given the enormous scale of the data and the wide range of potential results. DISCUSSION: We propose that the consent process in these studies be based on whether they use MPS to test a hypothesis or to generate hypotheses. To demonstrate the differences in these approaches to informed...
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