The insurance industry is likely to find it more difficult to use genetic data on disease susceptibility than some of its critics claim. But it is already contesting demands for strict controls on the way this data is used.
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with additional reports from Sally Lehrman in San Francisco, Quirin Schiermeier in Munich, Declan Butler in Paris and Richard Nathan in Tokyo.
- Ehsan Masood
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Masood, E. Gene tests: who benefits from risk?. Nature 379, 389–390 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/379389a0
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