Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Clinical Genomics

1st January 2015

“The astonishing development of massively parallel, high-throughout DNA sequencing technologies over the last decade means that sequencing multiple genes or even whole genomes is now becoming a clinical reality with enormous diagnostic potential. This has far-reaching consequences for the practice of clinical genetics as well as mainstream medicine and public health…”

The text was made available online in February 2015

• Wright C, Middleton A, Parker M (2015) Ethical, legal and social issues in genomics. In: Genomic Medicine: Principles and Practi

Wright C, Middleton A, Parker M (2015) Ethical, legal and social issues in genomics. In: D Kumar and C Eng (Eds). Genomic Medicine: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, pp 250-258

Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199896028.003.0017