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ArticleEuropean journal of human genetics : EJHG2014

Autonomy and the patient's right 'not to know' in clinical whole-genomic sequencing.

Anne Townsend, Francois Rousseau, Jan Friedman, Shelin Adam, Zoe Lohn, Patricia Birch

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Article in European journal of human genetics : EJHG, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Genetics and primary care: where are we headed?Journal of translational medicine · 2014
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  2. Reply to Townsend et al.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2014
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  3. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Anne TownsendThe W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Francois RousseauMedical Biology, Université Laval, Montreal, PQ, Canada.
Jan FriedmanMedical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Shelin AdamMedical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Zoe LohnMedical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Patricia BirchMedical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Genome, HumanInformed ConsentMental CompetencyGenetic TestingHumansSequence Analysis, DNA

Identifiers

PMID23674174
PMCPMC3865416

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