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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
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Testing the limits of the ‘joint account’ model of genetic information: a legal thought experiment
- Correspondence to Dr Charles Foster, The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK; Charles.Foster{at}gtc.ox.ac.uk
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Testing the limits of the ‘joint account’ model of genetic information: a legal thought experiment
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- Received March 20, 2014
- Revised May 12, 2014
- Accepted June 3, 2014
- First published June 25, 2014.
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April 27, 2016
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