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ArticleGenetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics2026

Toward ethical provenance tracking: The GA4GH model data access agreement (DAA).

Alexander Bernier, Bartha Maria Knoppers, Jonathan Lawson, Robyn McDougall, Maili Raven-Adams, Vasiliki Rahimzadeh

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Article in Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors.

Alexander BernierUniversity of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Falconer Hall, 84 Queens Park, Toronto, ON Canada. Electronic address: alexander.bernier@mail.mcgill.ca.
Bartha Maria KnoppersMcGill University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Human Genetics, Montreal, Quebec, QC, Canada.
Jonathan LawsonBroad Institute of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Robyn McDougallGilbert's LLP. Toronto, ON, Canada.
Maili Raven-AdamsWellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Vasiliki RahimzadehBaylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

Funding

Tracking Ethical Provenance for Sharing Genomic and Health Related DataU24HG011025 · NHGRI · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI HEIDI L REHM · 2021 to 2026
$8.2M
NHGRI NIH HHS U24 HG011025
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Abstract

purposeStandardizing contractual clauses that govern data access enables research institutions to responsibly steward genomic and related health data while enabling its efficient downstream reuse.

methodsWe describe a document analysis study using both qualitative and comparative law analytical approaches to identify the most common categories of clauses from 29 different data access agreements used by human biomedical research consortia globally. We furthermore characterized the legal positions and standard practices for each common element of the agreement and synthesized across them to develop model clauses. A total of 3 discussion sessions were organized virtually to refine the clauses among members of the Ethical Provenance Subgroup of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health.

resultsWe developed 15 unique data access clauses corresponding to the most common legal elements identified in the sampled agreements.

conclusionModel clauses can be used to drive administrative efficiencies and institutional compliance for managing access to human genomic data for research. Additional machine-readable consents and software solutions are needed to support traceable "ethical provenance" of human genomic data and communicate data use conditions throughout the data's life-cycle.

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Access to InformationBiomedical ResearchGenomicsGenome, HumanHumansComparative lawData access agreementData access oversightData stewardshipEmpirical bioethics

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PMID41046474
PMCPMC13281905

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