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The Food and Drug Administration in the US recently granted premarket clearance for a DNA sequencing platform with increased diagnostic power. Collins et al. stated in an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine that this approval may open the door “for the development and use of innumerable new genome-based tests” (Collins et al., NEJM 369:2369–2371, 2013). Collins et al. called the approval “a landmark move that will finally open the way to realize the promise of personalized medicine” (Collins et al., NEJM 369:2369–2371, 2013).
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Mascalzoni, D. (2015). Ethics Law and Governance of Biobanking: A Very Complex Normative Puzzle. In: Mascalzoni, D. (eds) Ethics, Law and Governance of Biobanking. The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9573-9_1
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