How Much Control Do Children and Adolescents Have over Genomic Testing, Parental Access to Their Results, and Parental Communication of Those Resul... - PubMed - NCBI

How Much Control Do Children and Adolescents Have over Genomic Testing, Parental Access to Their Results, and Parental Communication of Those Resul... - PubMed - NCBI

J Law Med Ethics. 2015 Sep;43(3):538-44. doi: 10.1111/jlme.12296.

How Much Control Do Children and Adolescents Have over Genomic Testing, Parental Access to Their Results, and Parental Communication of Those Results to Others?

Clayton EW1.

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Abstract

Adolescents may often have opinions about whether they want genetic and genomic testing in both the clinic and research and about who should have access to the results. This legal analysis demonstrates that the law provides very little protection to minors' wishes.

© 2015 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Inc.

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26479563

 

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