NIH Funds Studies on Ethical, Legal Impact of Genomic Data

Healthcare Informatics: Four new grants from the National Institutes of Health will support research on the ethical, legal and social questions raised by advances in genomics research and the increasing availability of genomic information.

With the funding, interdisciplinary centers at Vanderbilt University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Utah and University of Oklahoma will examine the use of genomic information in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases; genomic information privacy; communication about prenatal and newborn genomic testing results; and the impact of genomics in American Indian and Alaskan Native communities.

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