Looking back: three key lessons from 20 years of shaping Japanese genome research regulations

Affiliations

¹ Uehiro Research Division for iPS Cell Ethics, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. jusaku.minari@cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
² School of Social Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Uehiro Research Division for iPS Cell Ethics, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
⁴ Laboratory of Social Sciences, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Hyogo, Japan.
⁵ Shiga University, Shiga, Japan.
⁶ National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Tokyo, Japan.

Jusaku Minari et al. J Hum Genet. 2021 Nov.

. 2021 Nov;66(11):1039-1041.

doi: 10.1038/s10038-021-00923-z. Epub 2021 May 10.

¹ Uehiro Research Division for iPS Cell Ethics, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. jusaku.minari@cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
² School of Social Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Uehiro Research Division for iPS Cell Ethics, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
⁴ Laboratory of Social Sciences, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Hyogo, Japan.
⁵ Shiga University, Shiga, Japan.
⁶ National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Tokyo, Japan.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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