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. 2002 Feb 7;415(6872):577-9.
doi: 10.1038/415577a.

Diagnostic testing fails the test

Jon F Merz  1 , Antigone G Kriss, Debra G B Leonard, Mildred K Cho
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Diagnostic testing fails the test

Jon F Merz et al. Nature. .
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Timeline showing HFE patent applications, publication, patent grants and the cumulative number of laboratories at the times they began offering the clinical test following publication of the gene discovery in ref. .
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Medieval medicine. Haemochromatosis, thought of as a disease of the twenty-first century, can be treated by regular phlebotomy, or bleeding, a medical technique used back in the Dark Ages.
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How much is clinical-diagnostic testing being limited by gene patents?
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