Marginally scientific? Genetic testing of children and adolescents for lifestyle and health promotion

Timothy Caulfield; Pascal Borry; Maeghan Toews; Bernice S Elger; Henry T Greely; Amy McGuire

doi:10.1093/jlb/lsv038

Marginally scientific? Genetic testing of children and adolescents for lifestyle and health promotion

J Law Biosci. 2015 Nov 16;2(3):627-644. doi: 10.1093/jlb/lsv038. eCollection 2015 Nov.

Authors

Timothy Caulfield¹, Pascal Borry², Maeghan Toews¹, Bernice S Elger³, Henry T Greely⁴, Amy McGuire⁵

Affiliations

¹ Health Law Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2H5, Canada.
² Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
³ Institute for Biomedical Ethics, Universität Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ Center for Law and the Biosciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-8610, USA.
⁵ Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Direct-to-consumer genetic testing; genetic testing of adolescents; genetic testing of children; genetic testing policy; genetic testing regulation.