Genome-wide association studies in developing countries raise important new ethical issues

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 07:49 in Health & Medicine

Typically conducted in richer, developed countries but now increasingly done in the developing world, genome wide association (GWA) studies raise a host of ethical issues that must be addressed, argues a Policy Forum article published this week in PLoS Medicine.

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