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The Royal Colleges of Physicians and Pathologists and the British
Society for Human Genetics last month launched a new code of practice:
Consent and confidentiality in genetic practice: guidance on genetic
testing and sharing information.
It provides coherent guidance on obtaining consent before genetic
tests are made; on regulations for giving and sharing genetic
information with family members and between professionals; and on
genetic investigations on stored human tissue.
For example, those who are involved with taking samples or
information sharing of data derived from sampling will find several flow
diagrams which navigate around the complications that can arise when
children, the mentally incapacitated or the dead are involved.
Source bjhc&im October 2006
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