Overvaluing individual consent ignores risks to tribal participants
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Tsosie, Krystal; Yracheta, Joseph; Dickenson, Donna
- Source
- Nature Reviews Genetics; September 2019, Vol. 20 Issue: 9 p497-498, 2p
- Subject
- Language
- ISSN
- 14710056; 14710064
Genomic studies often rely on individual-based consent approaches for tribal members residing outside of their communities. This consent model fails to acknowledge the risks to small groups such as tribes, which can implicate the community as a whole. Genomic studies often rely on individual-based consent approaches for tribal members residing outside of their communities. Tsosie et al. argue that this consent model fails to acknowledge the risks to small groups such as tribes, which can implicate the community as a whole.