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Determining the Likelihood of Variant Pathogenicity Using Amino Acid-level Signal-to-Noise Analysis of Genetic Variation
Published on: January 16, 2019
Religious and spiritual issues in medical genetics
Joseph B Fanning1, Ellen Wright Clayton
1Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203, USA. joe.fanning@vanderbilt.edu
Abstract:
This article provides an overview of a special issue on the religious and spiritual concerns that arise in the provision of genetic services. It introduces some of the challenges in defining religion and spirituality and provides contexts and summaries for the empirical and normative research that appears in the issue.
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