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Gene-expression study raises thorny ethical issues

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Project obtains tissues from recently deceased individuals to look for the origins of disease.

Sharon Napper was getting ready for school one morning five years ago, when her four-year-old daughter said, “Daddy fell off the bed.” Her husband, Ronald, a retired US Marine who worked as a police officer on an army base, was lying on the floor. He had suffered an aneurysm that spread to the temporal artery in his head.

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