Commit to talks on patient data and public health

10th August 2017

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“Considerations about an individual’s confidentiality and privacy that exist in other areas of medicine cannot always be applied in genomics: one person’s genomic data can have implications for other family members. One effort to define these concepts (and to communicate essential information) is under way through a global survey, ‘Your DNA, Your Say’, being carried out by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), a group of large regional initiatives that collect genomic data.”

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Parry V (2017) Commit to talks on patient data and public health: Gene-edited embryos are exciting, but the truly urgent conversations concern genomic medicine, says Vivienne Parry. Nature, vol 548 p 137

Available at https://doi.org/10.1038/548137a