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What ethical and legal principles should guide the genotyping of children as part of a personalised screening programme for common cancer?
- Correspondence to Alison Elizabeth Hall, PHG Foundation (Foundation for Genomics and Population Health), Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; alison.hall{at}phgfoundation.org
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What ethical and legal principles should guide the genotyping of children as part of a personalised screening programme for common cancer?
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- Received September 10, 2012
- Revised December 14, 2012
- Accepted January 30, 2013
- First published March 1, 2013.
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February 14, 2014
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