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ArticleGenetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics2012

Charting ELSI's future course: lessons from the recent past.

Rebecca L Walker, Clair Morrissey

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Article in Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Rebecca L WalkerDepartment of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA. rlwalker@med.unc.edu
Clair Morrissey

Funding

Center for Genomics and SocietyP50HG004488 · NHGRI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI HENDERSON, GAIL E · 2007 to 2017
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NHGRI NIH HHS 1P50 HG004488-01NHGRI NIH HHS P50 HG004488
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeWe sought to examine the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) literature research and scholarship types, topics, and contributing community fields of training as a first step to charting the broader ELSI community's future priorities and goals.

methodsWe categorized 642 articles and book chapters meeting inclusion criteria for content in both human genetics or genomics and ethics or ELSI during a 5-year period (2003-2008) according to research and scholarship types, topics, and the area of advanced training of the first-listed author. Research and scholarship type categories were developed and characterized through in-depth review of 95 randomly sampled publications from the larger group.

resultsThere is a single dominant approach to ELSI, which focuses on ethical and other social issues "downstream" of advances in genomics, the contributors to which predominately have advanced training in medicine or science fields other than social science. A comparatively low percentage of publications primarily offer policy recommendations, and these are much more likely to be written by those with advanced training in law than is the case for the literature as a whole. Social science studies predominately employ qualitative methods and vary significantly with respect to the extent and types of recommendations offered. Two further types of ELSI research and scholarship offer alternative models for so-called "normative" work in this field.

conclusionConsidering topics, training, and types of ELSI research and scholarship from the most recent past allows for a baseline perspective that is sorely needed in charting this field's future course.

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Biomedical ResearchDatabases, GeneticEthics, ResearchFellowships and ScholarshipsGenetics, MedicalGenomicsHumansPublicationsPublishing

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PMID22261758
PMCPMC5901958

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