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. 2013 Aug 8;500(7461):141-2.
doi: 10.1038/500141a.

Biospecimen policy: Family matters

Kathy L Hudson  1 , Francis S Collins
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Biospecimen policy: Family matters

Kathy L Hudson et al. Nature. .

Abstract

Kathy L. Hudson and Francis S. Collins discuss how and why the US National Institutes of Health worked with the family of Henrietta Lacks, the unwitting source of the HeLa cell line, to craft an agreement for access to HeLa genome data.

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Henrietta Lacks’ family gather around a historical marker dedicated to her in Virginia in 2011.
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