The Human Genome Diversity Project: medical benefits versus ethical concerns.

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The Human Genome Diversity Project: medical benefits versus ethical concerns.

Molecular medicine today - 1 Feb 1998

Wallace R W

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By the year 2005 the entire human genome should have been sequenced and the genes identified. But the resulting genomic sequence, although a marvelous accomplishment, will be a composite of just a handful of individuals selected at random. The Human Genome Diversity Project was proposed as a mean...

Topics

Bioethics
Biotechnology
Databases, Nucleic Acid
Ethical Review
Ethnicity
Federal Government
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Genetic Privacy
Genetic Research
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Medical
Genetics, Population
Genome, Human
Global Health
Human Genome Project
Humans
Internationality
National Academy of Sciences, U.S.

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PMID: 9547791
DOI: 10.1016/S1357-4310(97)01206-9

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