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Promoting Safe and Effective Genetic Testing in the United States. Final Report of the Task Force on Genetic Testing
  1. Alastair Kent
  1. Director, Genetic Interest Group, London

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.26.6.482

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      Edited by Neil A Holtzmann and Michael S Watson, Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 1998, 186 pages, £23.00 (pb)

      This volume represents the conclusions of a multidisciplinary task force established by the US National Institutes of Health and Department of Energy working groups on the ethics, legal and social implications of human genome research. It ranges across the provision of genetic testing in the USA by commercial, not-for-profit and publicly funded agencies and it seeks to establish guiding principles and make recommendations for the development of safe and effective tests and their application in ways in which are helpful and that do not compromise the rights of patients and/or their families.

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