Genetic information and insurance: some ethical issues
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0089