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Nature 402, 8 (4 November 1999) | doi:10.1038/46880
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Japan plans ethics guidelines
Asako Saegusa
Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare announced plans last week to set up the country's first ethical guidelines for the management and use of human genetic information for biomedical research.As an initial step in this direction, the ministry has created an ad hoc working group to address ethical issues on research using human DNA samples, including the protection of personal genetic data, and to discuss measures for obtaining adequate informed consent from patients giving samples.
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