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Disease Genes Are Not Patentable: A Rebuttal of McGee

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

JON F. MERZ  and
MILDRED K. CHO
JON F. MERZ
Affiliation:
Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering and Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania
MILDRED K. CHO
Affiliation:
Center for Bioethics and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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Abstract

Dr. McGee presents a cogent argument for the patentability of the diagnosis of gene forms that are found to be associated with disease or other phenotypic manifestations. We're convinced he's wrong. An analogy will help explain why.

Type
BREAKING BIOETHICS
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 1998 , pp. 425 - 428
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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