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Industry involvement in publicly funded biobanks

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Increased private funding could add further to the ethical and legal complexities that are associated with biobanks.

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The authors would like to thank the co-authors of Caulfield et al. J. Law Biosci. (2014) and AllerGen NCE; the Stem Cell Network; and FP7-project EUcelLex and COST-action 1303 for funding support.

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  1. Health Law Institute, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2H5, Canada

    Timothy Caulfield

  2. Department of Public Health and Primacy Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium

    Pascal Borry

  3. Department of Political Science, and the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.,

    Herbert Gottweis

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Caulfield, T., Borry, P. & Gottweis, H. Industry involvement in publicly funded biobanks. Nat Rev Genet 15, 220 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg3704

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