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Arrays in postnatal and prenatal diagnosis: An exploration of the ethics of consent†

  1. Wybo Dondorp1,*,
  2. Birgit Sikkema-Raddatz2,
  3. Christine de Die-Smulders3,
  4. Guido de Wert1

Article first published online: 4 APR 2012

DOI: 10.1002/humu.22068

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Human Mutation

Human Mutation

Special Issue: Focus on CNV Detection with Diagnostic Arrays

Volume 33, Issue 6, pages 916–922, June 2012

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Dondorp, W., Sikkema-Raddatz, B., de Die-Smulders, C. and de Wert, G. (2012), Arrays in postnatal and prenatal diagnosis: An exploration of the ethics of consent. Hum. Mutat., 33: 916–922. doi: 10.1002/humu.22068

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Health, Ethics and Society, CAPHRI and GROW Research Schools, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

  2. 2

    Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands

  3. 3

    Department of Clinical Genetics, University Hospital Maastricht, GROW Research School, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

*Department of Health, Ethics and Society, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands.

  1. †

    For the Focus on CNV Detection with Diagnostic Arrays

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 7 MAY 2012
  2. Article first published online: 4 APR 2012
  3. Accepted manuscript online: 6 MAR 2012 10:57AM EST
  4. Manuscript Accepted: 21 FEB 2012
  5. Manuscript Received: 8 NOV 2011

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  • CSG Centre for Society and the Life Sciences; Netherlands Genomics Initiative; Research Project “The $1000 Genome: Ethics of Whole Genome Sequencing in Public Health Care” (70.1.070)

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