Introduction to International Ethical Standards Related to Genetics and Genomics
The rapid advances in genetic knowledge and technology raise various, sometimes unprecedented, ethical dilemmas in the scientific community as well as the public realm. To deal with these dilemmas, the international community has prepared and issued ethical standards in various formats. In this revi...
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| description | The rapid advances in genetic knowledge and technology raise various, sometimes unprecedented, ethical dilemmas in the scientific community as well as the public realm. To deal with these dilemmas, the international community has prepared and issued ethical standards in various formats. In this review, seven international standards regarding genetics and genomics will be briefly introduced in chronological order. Critical reflections on them will not be provided in this review, and naturally, they have their own problems and shortcomings. However, a common set of the principles expressed in them will be highlighted here, because they are still relevant, and many of them will be more relevant in the future. Some of the interesting contents will be selected and described. After that, the morality of one recent event related to whole-genome sequencing and person-identifiable genetic data will be explored based on those international standards. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6b17bd9da4f44a259550e9b87a44c9862025-02-02T01:02:38ZengBioMed CentralGenomics & Informatics1598-866X2234-07422013-12-0111421822310.5808/GI.2013.11.4.21866Introduction to International Ethical Standards Related to Genetics and GenomicsSeon-Hee Yim0Yeun-Jun Chung1Department of Medical Education, Integrated Research Center for Genome Polymorphism, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul 137-701, Korea.Department of Microbiology, Integrated Research Center for Genome Polymorphism, MRC, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul 137-701, Korea.The rapid advances in genetic knowledge and technology raise various, sometimes unprecedented, ethical dilemmas in the scientific community as well as the public realm. To deal with these dilemmas, the international community has prepared and issued ethical standards in various formats. In this review, seven international standards regarding genetics and genomics will be briefly introduced in chronological order. Critical reflections on them will not be provided in this review, and naturally, they have their own problems and shortcomings. However, a common set of the principles expressed in them will be highlighted here, because they are still relevant, and many of them will be more relevant in the future. Some of the interesting contents will be selected and described. After that, the morality of one recent event related to whole-genome sequencing and person-identifiable genetic data will be explored based on those international standards.http://genominfo.org/upload/pdf/gni-11-218.pdfethicsgeneticsgenomics |
| spellingShingle | Seon-Hee Yim Yeun-Jun Chung Introduction to International Ethical Standards Related to Genetics and Genomics Genomics & Informatics ethics genetics genomics |
| title | Introduction to International Ethical Standards Related to Genetics and Genomics |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Introduction to International Ethical Standards Related to Genetics and Genomics |
| title_short | Introduction to International Ethical Standards Related to Genetics and Genomics |
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