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ReviewJournal of applied genetics2016

Privacy and confidentiality measures in genetic testing and counselling: arguing on genetic exceptionalism again?

Magdalena M Witt, Michał P Witt

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of applied genetics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. How Sensitive Is Genetic Data?Biopreservation and biobanking · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Magdalena M WittDepartment of Rescue and Disaster Medicine, University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland. magdalenawitt@wp.pl.
Michał P WittDepartment of Molecular and Clinical Genetics, Institute of Human Genetics PAS, Poznań, Poland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medical confidentiality in clinical genetics poses an important question about its scope, which would be in line with professional ethics and simple honesty. It is already known that the maintenance of absolute anonymity, bearing in mind the current progress of genetic techniques, is virtually impossible. On the other hand, our insight into the information contained in the human genome is increasing. This mini-review presents the authors' standpoint regarding this complex and difficult issue.

Indexed as

ConfidentialityPrivacyGenetic CounselingGenetic TestingHumansConfidentialitygenetic counselingprivacy

Identifiers

PMID26886574
PMCPMC5061827

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