ELSI Publications and Products Database
Since its creation in 1990, the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program has funded hundreds of research projects, conferences, and other activities-through grants and contracts. This has resulted in many peer reviewed journal articles, books, newsletters, websites, television and radio programs and educational materials. Many of these products are included in this database (updates are still in progress). However, there are likely to be a number of publications missing, particularly those affiliated with older grants.
Hoffman S, Berg J. The Suitability of IRB Liability. University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 67(2):365-428. 2005. |
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Marshall P, Berg J. Protecting Communities in Biomedical Research. American Journal of Bioethics, 6(3): 28-30. 2006. [PubMed] |
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Natowicz M, Kass N, et al. Access to Health Insurance: Experiences and Attitudes of those with Genetic versus Non-genetic Medical conditions. American Journal Medical Genetics 143A(7):707-717. 2007. [PubMed] |
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Hoffman S, Podgurski A. Securing the HIPAA Security Rule. Journal of Internet Law, 10(1). 2007. |
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Leppert M, Matsuda I, et al. Community Engagement, Public Consultation, and Informed Consent in the International HapMap Project. Community Genetics. [PubMed] [PubMed] |
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Gaines, A.D, Race: Local biology and culture in mind. Chapter 15. Casey, C., Edgerton, R.B. (eds.) A Companion to Psychological Anthropology. Blackwell. pp. 274-97. 2005. |
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Hoffman, S. (2005). ""Racially-tailored" medicine unraveled." Am Univ Law Rev 55(2): 395-452. [PubMed] [PubMed] |
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Mehlman, M.J. "How Will We Regulate Genetic Enhancement?" Wake Forest Law Review. Fall 1999; 34(3): 671-714. |
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Mehlman, M.J. "The Law of Above Averages: Leveling the New Genetic Enhancement Playing Field." Iowa Law Review. 2000; 85: 124-130. |
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Juengst, E.T. "Can Prevention be Distinguished from Enhancement in Genetic Medicine?" Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. 1997; 22: 125-142. |
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Whitehouse, P.J., E.T. Juengst, T.H. Murray and M.J. Mehlman. "Enhancing Cognition in the Intellectually Intact." The Hastings Center Report. May-June 1997; 27: 14-23. [PubMed] |
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Juengst, E.T. "Concepts of Disease after the Human Genome Project." p. 125-152, in Ethics and Values in Health Care on the Frontiers of the Twenty-First Century, S. Wear and James (eds.) (Bono Philosophy and Medicine Book Series, Volume ) Uppsala: Uppsala University Library, 1999. |
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Mehlman, M.J. "The Human Genome Project and the Courts: Gene Therapy and Beyond." Judicature. November-December 1999; 83(3): 124-130. |
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Mehlman, M. J. in Encycl. Ethical, Leg. Polit. Issues Biotechnol. (Murray, T. H. & Mehlman, M. J.) (John Wiley and Sons, 2000). |
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Wolf, S. M. & Kahn, J. P. Genetic testing and the future of disability insurance: ethics, law & policy. J. Law, Med. Ethics 35, 6–32 (2007). [PubMed] |
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Kahn J. Genes, Race, and Population: Avoiding a Collision of Categories. American Journal of Public Health, 96(11):1965-70. 2006 [PubMed] |
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Thiel, D. B. et al. Testing an online, dynamic consent portal for large population biobank research. Public Health Genomics 18, 26–39 (2015). [PubMed] |
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Karjala, D.S. "A Legal Research Agenda for the Human Genome Initiative." Jurimetrics. 1992: (Special Issue: The Human Genome Initiative) 32(2); 121-311. [PubMed] |
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Deverka, P. A., Kaufman, D. & McGuire, A. L. Overcoming the reimbursement barriers for clinical sequencing. JAMA 312, 1857–8 (2014). [PubMed] |
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Chandrasekharan, S., McGuire, A. L. & Van den Veyver, I. B. Do recent US Supreme Court rulings on patenting of genes and genetic diagnostics affect the practice of genetic screening and diagnosis in prenatal and reproductive care? Prenat. Diagn. 34, 921–6 (2014). [PubMed] |
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Cook-Deegan R, Chandrasekharan S . Patents and genome-wide DNA sequence analysis: is it safe to go into the human genome?. J Law Med Ethics, 42 (S1):42-50. 2014. [SAGE] | Journal Article |
Deverka PA, Dreyfus JC . Clinical integration of next generation sequencing: coverage and reimbursement challenges.. J Law Med Ethics, 42 (S1):22-41. 2016. [SAGE] | Journal Article |
Javitt GH, Carner KS . Regulation of next generation sequencing. J Law Med Ethics, 42 (S1):9-21. 2014. [SAGE] | Journal Article |
Kaufman D, Curnutte M, McGuire AL . Clinical integration of next generation sequencing: a policy analysis.. J Law Med Ethics, 42 (S1):5-8. 2014. [SAGE] | Journal Article |
Guerrini CJ, McGuire AL, Majumder MA. . Myriad take two: Can genomic databases remain secret?. Science, 356 (6338):586-587. 2017. [PubMed] | Journal Article |
Curnutte MA, Frumovitz KL, Bollinger JM, Cook-Deegan RM, McGuire AL, Majumder MA. . Developing context-specific next-generation sequencing policy.. Nat Biotechnol, 34 (5):466-70. 2016. [PubMed] | Journal Article |
Curnutte, M. A., Frumovitz, K. L., Bollinger, J. M., McGuire, A. L. & Kaufman, D. J. Development of the clinical next-generation sequencing industry in a shifting policy climate. Nat. Biotechnol. 32, 980–2 (2014). [PubMed] |
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Kay, L.E. Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code. Stanford University Press, February 2000. |
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Keleher, C.A. "Translating the Genetic Library: The Goals, Methods, and Applications of the Human Genome Project." Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. 1993: 81: 274-277. [PubMed] |
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Kelly, S. E. “New” genetics meets the old underclass: Findings from a study of genetic outreach services in rural Kentucky. Crit. Public Health 12, 169–186 (2002). [Full Text] |
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Kelly SE. "A different light - Examining, impairment through parent narratives of childhood disability." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. APR 2005; 34 (2): 180-205 |
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Kelly SE. "Bioethics and rural health: theorizing place, space, and subjects." Social Science & Medicine. June 2003; 56 (11): 2277-2288. [PubMed] |
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Kevles, D.J. "Social and Ethical Issues in the Human Genome Project." Phi Kappa Phi Journal (National Forum). Spring 1993; 73: 18-21. |
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Kevles, D.J. and L. Hood, eds. The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. 397p. |
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Gesteland R.F. "Exploring genetic technology." video review. Judicature. May-June 2003; 86(6): 320-321. [Full Text] |
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Ginther, C.; L. Issel-Tarver; and M.C. King. "Identifying Individuals by Sequencing Mitochondrial DNA from Teeth." Nature Genetics. October 1992; 2: 135-138. |
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King, M.C. "An Application of DNA Sequencing to a Human Rights Problem." In: Molecular Genetic Medicine, Friedman, Ed. 1991: 117-131. [PubMed] |
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Baty BJ, Dudley WN, Musters A, Kinney AY. Uncertainty in BRCA1 cancer susceptibility testing. Am J Med Genet Part C Semin Med Genet, 142(4):241-50. 2006. [PubMed] |
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Kinney, A.Y., Croyle, R.A., Dudley, W.N., Neuhausen, S., Pelias, M.K., & Bailey, C. "Knowledge and attitudes toward genetic testing among a large African American kindred with a BRCA1 mutation." Preventive Medicine. 2001; 33: 543-551. |
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Baty, B.J., Kinney, A.Y., Simonsen, S., & Wiley, A. "Developing culturally sensitive cancer genetics communication aids for African-Americans." American Journal of Medical Genetics. 2003; 118: 146-155. |
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Kinney, A.Y., Emery, G., Dudley, W.N., & Croyle, R.T. "Screening behaviors among African American women at high risk for breast cancer: Do beliefs about God matter?" Oncology Nursing Forum. 2002; 29: 835-843. |
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BRCA Team. (2001). Family health study. Salt Lake City, UT: Color Transfer. (Culturally targeted BRCA1 testing educational pamphlet). |
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Baty, B.J., Kinney, A.Y., Dudley, W., Marshall, E. "Uncertainty in a family at high risk for a BRCA1 mutation." Journal of Genetic Counseling. 2002; 11: 470-471. |
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Cancer. 2005 Dec 1;104(11):2508-16. [PubMed] |
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J Genet Couns. 2006 Aug;15(4):293-305. [PubMed] |
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Kinney, A. Y., et al. (2006). "Acceptance of genetic testing for hereditary breast ovarian cancer among study enrollees from an African American kindred." Am J Med Genet A 140(8): 813-826. [PubMed] [PubMed] |
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Klitzman, R. Questions, complexities, and limitations in disclosing individual genetic test results. |
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Klitzman, R. Additional implications of a national survey on ethics consultation in U.S. hospitals. |
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Klitzman, R. & Sauer, M. V. Payment of egg donors in stem cell research in the USA. Reprod. Biomed. Online 18, 603–8 (2009). [PMC] |
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Fisher, C. E., Chin, L. & Klitzman, R. Defining Neuromarketing: Practices and Professional Challenges. Harv. Rev. Psychiatry 18, 230–237 (2010). [PMC] |
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Klitzman, R. L. How IRBs view and make decisions about social risks. J. Empir. Res. Hum. Res. Ethics 8, 58–65 (2013). [PubMed Central] |
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Klitzman, R. How US institutional review boards decide when researchers need to translate studies. J. Med. Ethics 40, 193–7 (2014). [PMC] |
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Krosin, M, Klitzman, R, Levin, B, Cheng, J, Ranney, ML. Problems in comprehension of informed consent in rural and peri-urban Mali, West Africa. Clinical Trials, 3(3):306-313. 2006. [PubMed] |
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Klitzman, R. Views of the process and content of ethical reviews of HIV vaccine trials among members of US Institutional Review Boards and South African Research Ethics Committees. Developing |
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Klitzman, R, Albala, I, Siragusa, J, Appelbaum, P. The reporting of compensation and risks on |
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Appelbaum, P, Lidz, C, and Klitzman, R. Voluntariness of Consent to Research: A Conceptual Model. |
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Klitzman, R. Complications of culture in obtaining informed consent. American Journal of Bioethics |
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Klitzman, R. Qualifying confidentiality: Historical and empirical issues and facts. American Journal of |
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Klitzman, R, Zolovska, B, Folberth, W, Chung, W, Sauer, M, Appelbaum, P. Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis: Ethics, Risks and Benefits. Fertility and Sterility, 92(4):1276-1283. 2008. |
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Klitzman, R, Appelbaum, P, and Chung, W. Anticipating issues related to increasing Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis use: A research agenda. Reproductive Biomedicine, 17(1):33-42. 2008. [PubMed] |
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Klitzman, R. Views of discrimination among individuals confronting genetic disease. J. Genet. Couns. 19, 68–83 (2010). [PMC] |
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Klitzman, R. L., Kleinert, K., Rifai-Bashjawish, H. & Leu, C. S. The reporting of IRB review in journal articles presenting HIV research conducted in the developing world. Dev. World Bioeth. 11, 161–9 (2011). [PMC] |
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Klitzman, R, Siragusa, J, Albala, I, Appelbaum, P. The reporting of monetary compensation in research articles. |
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Appelbaum, P, Lidz, C, Klitzman, R. Voluntariness of Consent to Research: A Preliminary Empirical |
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Klitzman R, Kirshenbaum S, Kittel L, et al. Intricacies and Inter-relationships Between HIV Disclosure and HAART: A Qualitative Study. AIDS Care, 16(5):628-640, 2004. [PubMed] |
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Klitzman R, Kirshenbaum SB, Kittel L, Morin SF, Daya S, Mastrogiacomo M, Rotheram-Borus, MJ. Naming Names: Perceptions of Name-Based HIV Reporting, Partner Notification, and Criminalization of Non-disclosure Among Persons Living With HIV. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 1(3):38-57. 2004. [Full Text] |
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Klitzman R, Bayer R. Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS. Johns Hopkins University Press. Paperback edition. 2005. |
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Knoppers, B.M., C.M. Laberge and M. Hirtle, eds. Human DNA: Law and Policy. The Hague, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 1997. |
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Kuppermann, M. et al. Preferences of women facing a prenatal diagnostic choice: long-term outcomes matter most. Prenat. Diagn. 19, 711–6 (1999). [PubMed] |
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Kuppermann, M., E. Gates, A.E. Washington. "Racial/Ethnic Differences in Prenatal Diagnostic Test Use and Outcomes: Preferences, Socioeconomics or Patient Knowledge?" Obstetrics and Gynecology. 1996; 87: 675-82. |
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Korngiebel DM, West KM, Burke W. . Clinician-Stakeholders' Perspectives on Using Patient Portals to Return Lynch Syndrome Screening Results.. J Genet Couns, 27 (2):349-357. 2018. [PubMed] | Journal Article |
Korngiebel DM, Thummel KE, Burke W. . Implementing Precision Medicine: The Ethical Challenges.. Trends Pharmacol Sci, 381 (1):8-14. 2017. [PubMed] | Journal Article |
Kuppermann M., Feeny D., Gates E., Posner S., Blumberg B., Washington A.E. "Preferences of women facing a prenatal diagnostic choice: Long-term outcomes matter most." Prenatal Diagnosis. 1999; 19: 711-6. |
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Ratliff A., Angell M., Dow R.W., Kuppermann M. et al. "What is a good decision?" Effective Clinical Practice. 1999; 2: 185-97. |
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Kuppermann M., Nease R.F., Ackerson L.M., Black S.B., Shinefield H.R., Lieu T.A.. "Parents preferences for outcomes associated with childhood vaccinations." Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 2000; 12: 129-33. |
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Kuppermann, M., E. Gates, A.E. Washington. "Racial/Ethnic Differences in Prenatal Diagnostic Test Use and Outcomes: Preferences, Socioeconomics or Patient Knowledge?" Obstetrics and Gynecology. 1996; 87: 675-82. |
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Moyer A., Brown B.A., Gates E., Daniels M., Brown H.D., Kuppermann M. "Decision about prenatal testing for chromosomal disorders: Perceptions of a diverse group of pregnant women." Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine. 1999; 8: 521-31. [PubMed] |
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Kupperman M., Goldberg J.D., Nease R.F., Washington A.E. "Who should be offered prenatal diagnosis? The thirty-five-year-old question." American Journal of Public Health. 1999;89:160-3. |
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Kuppermann M., Nease R.F., Learman L.A., Gates E., Blumberg B., Washington A.E.. "Procedure-related miscarriages and Down syndrome-affected births: Implications for prenatal testing based on women's preferences." Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2000; 96: 511-6. |
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Knoppers, B.M., C.M. Laberge and M. Hirtle, eds. Human DNA: Law and Policy. The Hague, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 1997. |
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Kuppermann, M., S. Shiboski, D. Feeny, E. Elkin, A.E. Washington. "Can Preference Scores for Discrete States be Used to Derive Preference Scores for an Entire Path of Events? An Application to Prenatal Diagnosis." Medical Decision Making. 1997; 17: 42-55. |
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Harris R.A., Washington AE, Feeny D, Kuppermann M. "Decision Analysis of Prenatal Testing for Chromosomal Disorders: What Do the Preferences of Pregnant Women Tell Us?" Genetic Testing. 2001; 5(1): 23-32. |
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Ostrove J.M., Adler N.E., Kuppermann M., Washington A.E. "Objective and subjective assessments of socioeconomic status and their relationship to self-rated health in an ethnically diverse sample of pregnant women." Health Psychology, 2000; 19:613-8. |
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Lapham, E.V. and J.O. Weiss. "Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project: Education of Interdisciplinary Professionals Meeting Proceedings." Human Genome Education Model Project. Georgetown University. Washington, DC. June 10, 1996. |
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Lapham, E.V., C. Kozma and J.O. Weiss. "Genetic Discrimination: Perspectives of Consumers." Science, 25 October 1996; 274: 621-624. |
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Kozma, C. and E.V. Lapham. "Nature: Understanding Genetic and Hereditary Influence on Brain Function." Lesson 3 in Nueroscience & Occupation: Links to Practice. C.B. Royeen, Ed. |
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Lapham E.V., Kozma C., Weiss J.O., Benkendorf J.L., Wilson M.A. "The Gap Between Practice and Genetics Education of Health Professionals: HuGEM Survey Results." Genetics in Medicine. July/August 2000; 2(4): 1-6. |
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The HuGEM Project. Georgetown University Child Development Center, Washington, DC and The Alliance of Genetic Support Groups, Chevy Chase, MD. (Six videos: titles listed below) "The HuGEM Project: Overview of the Human Genome Project and Its Ethical, Legal and Social Issues." (19 minutes) |
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Palincsar, L. et al. Human Genome Education Model Project Video Manual. Georgetown University Child Development Center, Washington, DC and The Alliance of Genetic Support Groups, Chevy Chase, MD. Georgetown University. 1996. |
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Mol Psychiatry. 2018 Jan;23(1):15-23. doi: 10.1038/mp.2017.228. Epub 2017 Nov 21. [PubMed Access] |
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Brannan C, Foulkes AL, Lázaro-Muñoz G. . Preventing discrimination based on psychiatric risk biomarkers.. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet, 2018. [PubMed] | Journal Article |
Lea, Dale and J. Jenkins. Genetics in Clinical Practice: New Dimensions for Nursing and Health Care. Boston: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 1998. 352p. |
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Lee, Sandra Soo-Jin, Joanna Mountain, Barbara A. Koenig. "The Meanings of Race in the New Genomics: Implications for Health Disparities Research." Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics. Spring 2001, pp33-75. [PubMed] |
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Lee, Sandra Soo-Jin. "Genetics and Racial Minorities." Stephen Post, ed., Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed. 2003. |
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Lee, Sandra Soon-Jin. "Race, Distributive Justice and the Promise of Pharmacogenomics: Ethical Considerations." Amer. Jour. of PharmacoGenomics. 2003; 3(6): 385-392. [PubMed] |
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Lee SS . Genetics and Racial Minorities. In Post SG Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd Ed.. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing. 992-996. 2003. | Book Chapter |
Sankar, P, Cho, M, Condit, C, Hunt, L, Koenig, B, Marshall, P, Lee, SS, Spicer, P. Genetic research and health disparities. Journal of the American Medical Association, 291(24):2985-2989. 2004. [PubMed Central] |
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Lee, SS, Mountain, J, Koenig, B, Altman, R, Brown, M, Camarillo, A, Cavalli-Sforza, L, Cho, M, Eberhardt, J, Feldman, M, Ford, R, Greely, H, King, R., Markus, H, Satz, D, Snipp, M, Steele, C, Underhill, P. The Ethics of characterizing Difference: Guiding Principles on Using Racial Categories in Human Genetics. Genome Biology, 9(7):404.1-4. 2008. [PubMed Central] |
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Lee, SS. Pharmacogenomics and the Challenge of Health Disparities. Public Health Genomics, 12(3):170-179. 2009. [PubMed] |
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Last updated: January 24, 2019