Childhood Disease Sequencing Project Highlights Ethical Issues of Sequencing Patients
March 16, 2011
Childhood Disease Sequencing Project Highlights Ethical Issues of Sequencing Patients
"A key ethical question is, when you do this next-gen whole-genome sequencing, do you return that information back to the families and patients? A part of this project is to study that question," said Poul Sorensen of the BC Cancer Agency.
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