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Press release of the Prime Minister, 17 July 2017 https://www.gouvernement.fr/sites/default/files/document/document/2017/07/communique_de_presse_de_m._edouard_philippe_premier_ministre_-_plan_medecine_france_genomique_2025_-_17.07.2017.pdf
French Medical Genome Plan 2025 – report submitted to the Prime Minister on 22 June 2016
Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine concerning Genetic Testing for Health Purposes, Strasbourg, 27/11/2008 (http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/fr/Treaties/html/203.htm) This Protocol was signed by France in 2001 but has not yet been ratified as of this date. The Protocol took effect on 1 July 2018
State of Israel for Ashkenazi Jews for the screening of certain metabolic diseases: consulted on 28 August 2017 https://www.health.gov.il/English/Topics/Genetics/checks/Pages/GeneticTestingRecommendations.aspx
The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (ETS No 164), 1997
Additional protocol - op. cit.
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Pasquier, L., Isidor, B., Rial-Sebbag, E. et al. Population genetic screening: current issues in a European country. Eur J Hum Genet 27, 1321–1323 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-019-0425-2
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