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Ethical issues in genomic research on the African continent: experiences and challenges to ethics review committees

This is a report on a workshop titled ‘Ethics for genomic research across five African countries: Guidelines, experiences and challenges’, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 10 and 11 December 2012. The workshop was hosted by the Wits-INDEPTH partnership, AWI-Gen, as part o...

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Autores principales: Ramsay, Michèle, de Vries, Jantina, Soodyall, Himla, Norris, Shane A, Sankoh, Osman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25145346
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40246-014-0015-x
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description This is a report on a workshop titled ‘Ethics for genomic research across five African countries: Guidelines, experiences and challenges’, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 10 and 11 December 2012. The workshop was hosted by the Wits-INDEPTH partnership, AWI-Gen, as part of the H3Africa Consortium.
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spelling pubmed-44208492015-05-07 Ethical issues in genomic research on the African continent: experiences and challenges to ethics review committees Ramsay, Michèle de Vries, Jantina Soodyall, Himla Norris, Shane A Sankoh, Osman Hum Genomics Meeting Report This is a report on a workshop titled ‘Ethics for genomic research across five African countries: Guidelines, experiences and challenges’, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 10 and 11 December 2012. The workshop was hosted by the Wits-INDEPTH partnership, AWI-Gen, as part of the H3Africa Consortium. BioMed Central 2014-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4420849/ /pubmed/25145346 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40246-014-0015-x Text en Copyright © 2014 Ramsay et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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