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Ethical issues in screening and testing for genetic diseases.
Clinics in laboratory medicine - 1 Dec 1995
Kadlec J V, McPherson R A
Abstract excerpt
New analytic techniques coupled with detailed knowledge of the entire human genome soon will make possible testing of all genes in every person. Concepts of disease will change, and predisease states will be identified for genetic therapies. Patients, physicians, and laboratory personnel will be confronted with ethical and moral issues in the performance of genetic testing. The primary ethical issues will focus...
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