Connecting the public with biobank research: reciprocity matters (original) (raw)

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To ensure that biobanks reach their full potential, better engagement of the public is needed. The authors argue that the principle of reciprocity should be at the core of these efforts.

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H.G. was supported by grants from the Austrian Genome Project (GEN-AU) for the projects GATiB (Genome Austrian Tissue Bank) and PrivatGen and by the European Union Programme for Research and Development (FP 7) project Biobanking and Biomolecular Research Infrastructure (BBMRI) and by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2010-330-B00169). G.G. was funded by the Sensitive Technologies and European Public Ethics (STEPE) funded project and the Science in Society Programme of the European Commission's FP7.

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  1. Herbert Gottweis is at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Universitätsstrasse 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria; and Kyung Hee University, Seoul, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-701, South Korea.,
    Herbert Gottweis
  2. and Kyung Hee University, Seoul, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-701, South Korea.,
    Herbert Gottweis
  3. George Gaskell is at the London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK.,
    George Gaskell
  4. Johannes Starkbaum is at the University of Vienna, Universitätsstrasse 9/7, 1010 Vienna, Austria.,
    Johannes Starkbaum

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  2. George Gaskell
  3. Johannes Starkbaum

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Gottweis, H., Gaskell, G. & Starkbaum, J. Connecting the public with biobank research: reciprocity matters.Nat Rev Genet 12, 738–739 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg3083

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