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Navigating an ethical patchwork—human gene banks

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Population genetics research collaborations are reaching increasingly across national boundaries to access human tissue repositories. Will discrepancies in national policies on informed consent and IP rights hinder progress?

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  • 01 July 2005

    Nat. Biotechnol. 23, 539–545 (2005) In Table 1, page 540, the source of funding for the Singapore Tissue Network was given as the “Singapore Biomedical Research Council, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Ministry of Health and the Genome Institute of Singapore.” It should have read the “Singapore's Biomedical Research Council of the Agency for Science Technology and Research.

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