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Advances in bioinformatics and genetics have made collections of biologic specimens and medical information valuable for pharmacogenomic research.¹ As a result, many large-scale data banks for genomics have emerged in the United States and abroad.² These large sets of tissue and blood samples and health data have profound medical, legal, ethical, and social implications for privacy, individual and group autonomy, and benefits to communities.^3,4,5 In the United States, a number of biotechnology companies are amassing samples — millions of them, in some cases — in private tissue banks.⁶ Many of these companies act as brokers of tissue and of health . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Consent Forms and Permission

Institutional Review Boards

Property Rights and Benefits to the Community

The Charitable-Trust Model

Structuring the Trust

Funding the Trusts

Conclusions

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From the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (D.E.W.); and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (R.N.W.).

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The Charitable Trust as a Model for Genomic Biobanks
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N Engl J Med 2004; 350:85-86, Jan 1, 2004. Correspondence

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