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Ethical priority of the most actionable system of biomolecules: the metabolome

The metabolome is a system of small biomolecules (metabolites) and a direct result of human bioculture. Consequently, metabolomics is well poised to impact anthropological and biomedical research for the foreseeable future. Overall, we provide a perspective on the ethical, legal, and social implicat...

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Autores principales: Lewis, Cecil M., McCall, Laura‐Isobel, Sharp, Richard R., Spicer, Paul G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7003909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31643083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23943
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description The metabolome is a system of small biomolecules (metabolites) and a direct result of human bioculture. Consequently, metabolomics is well poised to impact anthropological and biomedical research for the foreseeable future. Overall, we provide a perspective on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of metabolomics, which we argue are often more alarming than those of genomics. Given the current mechanisms to fund research, ELSI beyond human DNA is stifled and in need of considerable attention.
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spelling pubmed-70039092020-02-11 Ethical priority of the most actionable system of biomolecules: the metabolome Lewis, Cecil M. McCall, Laura‐Isobel Sharp, Richard R. Spicer, Paul G. Am J Phys Anthropol Commentary The metabolome is a system of small biomolecules (metabolites) and a direct result of human bioculture. Consequently, metabolomics is well poised to impact anthropological and biomedical research for the foreseeable future. Overall, we provide a perspective on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of metabolomics, which we argue are often more alarming than those of genomics. Given the current mechanisms to fund research, ELSI beyond human DNA is stifled and in need of considerable attention. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2019-10-23 2020-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7003909/ /pubmed/31643083 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23943 Text en © 2019 The Authors. American Journal of Physical Anthropology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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