Navigating social and ethical challenges of biobanking for human microbiome research

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• 作者：Kim H. Chuong ; David M. Hwang ; D. Elizabeth Tullis ; Valerie J. Waters…
• 关键词：Return of results ; Incidental findings ; Identifiability ; Biobank ; Microbiome ; Cystic fibrosis ; Research ethics
• 刊名：BMC Medical Ethics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：18
• 期：1
• 全文大小：437KB
• 刊物主题：Ethics; Philosophy of Medicine; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1472-6939
• 卷排序：18

文摘

BackgroundBiobanks are considered to be key infrastructures for research development and have generated a lot of debate about their ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI). While the focus has been on human genomic research, rapid advances in human microbiome research further complicate the debate.