The Ethics of Genetic Information Discrimination

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This is the LeBron Brady scenario. Who's allowed to keep this data, how much of this data can get out because it's personal? This becomes a data protection issue. So in short, so in short steward is do you have an ethicist in your lab looking over your shoulder? That's what this comes down to. Not in my lab, but you know, I have lawyers that I collaborate with and are writing the ethics.

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