Genetic testing. Counseling, laboratory, and regulatory issues and the EUROPAC protocol for ethical research in multicenter studies of inherited pancreatic diseases

Med Clin North Am. 2000 May;84(3):575-88, viii. doi: 10.1016/s0025-7125(05)70241-8.

Abstract

This article highlights several of the important issues and illustrates a European protocol that should be considered when offering genetic testing on a research or clinical basis for HP, as well as for other inherited disorders of the pancreas.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Cytogenetic Analysis*
  • Ethics, Medical*
  • Genetic Counseling*
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease / genetics
  • Humans
  • Multicenter Studies as Topic
  • Pancreatic Diseases / diagnosis
  • Pancreatic Diseases / genetics*
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / genetics
  • Pancreatitis / diagnosis
  • Pancreatitis / genetics*
  • Risk Factors