Ethical and Psychosocial Implications of Genomic Newborn Screening
The potential for genomic screening of the newborn, specifically adding genomic screening to current newborn screening (NBS), raises very significant ethical issues. Regardless of whether NBS of this type would include entire genomes or only the coding region of the genome (exome screening) or even...
Main Author: | Harvey L. Levy |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-01-01
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Series: | International Journal of Neonatal Screening |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2409-515X/7/1/2 |
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