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To the Editor: Regarding "The Icelandic Healthcare Database and Informed Consent" (June 15 issue)¹: legislation passed on May 13 in Iceland makes it clear how deCODE could obtain the DNA they need to complete their genotypic–phenotypic data base. The new act on biobanks takes the "assumed consent" embodied in the plan for a centralized data base of medical records and extends it to patients' blood and tissue. As long as written information on "assumed consent" is available at the clinic, clinical samples may be used for research unless the patient objects. Thus, subject to the approval of a politically . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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