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When consent gets in the way

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As the prospect of personal genomes for all promises to revolutionize personal health records, Patrick Taylor says that mandating consent does not protect privacy or ensure public benefit.

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  1. Patrick Taylor is a lecturer at Harvard Medical School and deputy general counsel at Children's Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. patrick.taylor@childrens.harvard.edu ,

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